Freudianism
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Wasn’t that a big part of Freudianism: that magic is often displaced, but never destroyed?
From The New Yorker • Dec. 24, 2015
He wrote his first book for Faber, the teasingly titled On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored, almost 20 years ago, against a backdrop of challenges to Freudianism from two directions.
From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2012
But for all its tasteful rectitude and obvious reverence for the movie, Mr. Woodruff’s “Autumn Sonata” exposes the overwrought, overexplicit Freudianism of the material, nearly tipping it into parody at times.
From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2011
A history of the humanities in the 20th century could be chronicled in "isms" — formalism, Freudianism, structuralism, postcolonialism — grand intellectual cathedrals from which assorted interpretations of literature, politics and culture spread.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 18, 2010
This is certainly not the place to argue whether or not Freudianism and Marxism should be deemed pseudosciences, but a tendency to confuse factual statements with empty logical formulations leads to sloppy thought.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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