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Freudianism

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[froi-dee-uhn-iz-uhm] / ˈfrɔɪ di ənˌɪz əm /

noun

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


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Warmed-over Freudianism is no way to foretell one’s actions in office.

From Slate • Oct. 12, 2016

Wasn’t that a big part of Freudianism: that magic is often displaced, but never destroyed?

From The New Yorker • Dec. 24, 2015

Although she continued to explore mystical alternatives and converted to Arthur Miller's Judaism, she called Freudianism her "religion".

From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 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

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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