Freudianism

[froi-dee-uhn-iz-uhm]

noun

1. the beliefs, theories, ideas, and practices that are associated with or characteristic of the work of Sigmund Freud.

Other Word Forms

• neo-Freudianism noun

Example Sentences

It has all of his midcareer obsessions — angst, gloomy sex, Freudianism, existentialism, suppressed hysteria and heavy symbolism, punctuated by angry outbursts.

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Benjamin Moser, in his biography of Sontag published last year, offered this efficient description of Taubes, which doubles as a description of Sophie Blind, the novel’s protagonist: “Torn from Europe but estranged from America, alienated from the Judaism of her grandparents but unconvinced by the Freudianism of her father.”

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It was followed, in the forties, by an important book of essays, “The Yogi and the Commissar,” and several thought-provoking but less consequential novels of politics and ideas, including “Arrival and Departure,” which reckoned with Freudianism, and “Thieves in the Night,” about Jewish settlers in Palestine.

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The view of humanity in the book is dime-store Freudianism: Scratch a character and you’ll find their primal wound, which then overdetermines their behavior.

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She starts by presenting the myth she wants to dismantle — the heroic tale of biology’s triumph in the 1980s over a half-century of vulgar Freudianism.

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