Freudianism
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Behind all Freudianism, the play taps the root of a connection to the wild.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 30, 2017
Wasn’t that a big part of Freudianism: that magic is often displaced, but never destroyed?
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 24, 2015
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
Popper has criticized Freudianism for claims and predictions which, though perhaps comforting or suggestive in one way or another, are, like the above statements, largely unfalsifiable.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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