Freudianadjective
uk/ˈfrɔɪ.di.ən/us/ˈfrɔɪ.di.ən/relating to the ideas or methods of Sigmund Freud, especially his ideas about the way in which people's hidden thoughts and feelings influence their behaviour
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Science of psychology & psychoanalysis
- cognitive psychology
- commit
- committal
- gestalt
- id
- inkblot test
- Jungian
- Oedipal
- psych
- psycho
- psychoanalyse
- psychological
- repression
- screw sb up
- shock therapy
- shrink
- superego
- trance
- transference
- word association
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Examples from literature
- A wealth of evidence could be adduced to support this from the studies of dreams and fantasies made by the Freudian school of psychologists.
- In the language of medical psychology, to suggest to the President that the Treaty was an abandonment of his professions was to touch on the raw a Freudian complex.
- It was in tune with the Freudian analyses.
- Since the war, some of us know, too, with what success the army has used the Freudian principles in treating war-neurosis, which was mistakenly called shell-shock by the first observers.
- The unconscious is not, of course, the clue to the Freudian theory.