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Freudian

Freudian \Freudian\ prop. a. of or pertaining to Sigmund Freud; as, Freudian theories.

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Freudian

1910, of or pertaining to the work or theories of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian psychiatrist. Freudian slip first attested 1959.

Usage examples of "freudian".

Suppose Freudian or Jungian or Adlerian analysis has led to a big brick wall, then roll on PLT.

The smallest realization - at any step: Cairo, Florence, Paris - that she fitted into a larger scheme leading eventually to her personal destruction and she might have shied off, come to establish eventually so many controls over herself that she became - to Freudian, behaviorist, man of religion, no matter - a purely determined organism, an automaton, constructed, only quaintly, of human flesh.

Also, she reminded herself, she had spent all of her savings on the house down payment, and the bank had still required that her father to cosign the note, bringing a whole set of Freudian conflicts to the fore.

Hence the interest of literary critics in Freudian methods of interpretation.

It was entertaining to imagine a Freudian University indissolubly wedded to a Roman Establishment: they certainly would not live so harmoniously together as the Anglican Church and the School of Litterae Humaniores.

Whether one is a Freudian or not, this is still the most accurate and succinct summary of all forms of uncovering psychotherapy, and it simply points to an expansion of ego, an expansion of I-ness, into a higher and wider identity that integrates previously alienated processes.

Freudians, learning theorists, sociobiologists, drug-oriented psychiatrists, physiologists with interests in hormones, genes and neurotransmitters, and many others may not agree with this highly conscious, cognitive explanation of emotions.

Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition and to which we will return.

However, using my map, if typical individuals at the ordinary ego indeed begin to regress, this map would predict the same general sequence as the Grof map: it would predict ego, Freudian, birth, transpersonal.

Despite everything psychiatrists and Freudian castrators have to say about the Angels, they are tough, mean and potentially dangerous as packs of wild boar.

INFORMATION: THE KINETIC IMAGE 152 Twiggy and the K-Mesons 155 The Freudian Wave 158 A Blizzard of Best Sellers 161 The Engineered Message 162 Mozart on the Run 166 The Semi-literate Shakespeare 169 Art: Cubists and Kineticists 173 The Neural Investment 177 PART THREE: NOVELTY 183 Chapter 9.

In The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1974), the veteran Freudian Erich Fromm flatly contradicts Dart, Ardrey and Lorenz, and argues that there is no evidence that our remote ancestors were basically warlike and aggressive.

Past actuals (structures already laid down in evolution but subsequently submerged) include the phylogenetic heritage and the ontogenetic heritage (from material/plant/animal identification to perinatal matrices to Freudian psychodynamic unconscious to collective archaic unconscious).

The fat little guy was always in your face, always dancing up to you bigger than life, in academic seminars or private supervisory sessions always rising up onto his tippy-toes like a bingeing ballerina to present some goofy Freudian stuff in the voice and gesture of a Borscht Belt comic, self-mocking in the extreme.

I mean, if there was ever anyone who could have done with a little Freudian analysis .