psychoanalytic
/ˌsʌɪkəʊanəˈlɪtɪk
/adjective
Relating to or involving psychoanalysis: Freudian psychoanalytic theory psychoanalytic approaches to trauma...
- The phenomenon of "transference" is one of the cornerstones of psychoanalytic theory.
- Two decades of psychoanalytic film theory have shown us how to read these films as the working out of a particularly ambiguous oedipal fantasy, centred on the woman.
- The researchers have shown the value of a psychoanalytic approach based in day hospitals for patients with severe personality disorder.
Derivatives
psychoanalytical
- Psychoanalytical theory has had a huge impact upon literary studies.
- Use of any psychoanalytical approach here is only going to be useful if it sheds some light on the question.
- He puts forward the psychoanalytical interpretation of the story as an example of "the evil mother".
psychoanalytically
/ adverb ...- The feminist discourse is psychoanalytically grounded, focused on narrative cinema's address to the dynamics of the unconscious.
- The tool the analyst needs is her psychoanalytically trained selfhood to access the selfhood of the other.
- Psychoanalytically it was good for all of us to express our feelings about death so openly.