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In the post-Freudian age it has become a truism that desires should not be repressed.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2024

Yet there’s something truthful in that obscurity, for who in our post-Freudian times would deny that faces — even those of our nearest and dearest — hide as much as they expose?

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2016

When New York and then Las Vegas real estate was hot, he waved away any post-Freudian snickers and built big shiny towers, named after himself.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2015

It is magnificently open-ended: and for 21st-century, post-Freudian readers of the novel, questions about character and backstory crowd in, to be completed by the imagination, or in this case, the novelist.

From The Guardian • May 30, 2012

But the rock music, at least, taps into a post-Freudian understanding of the unconscious that's fully assimilated into modern psychology.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 9, 2012