Pseudo-freudianism
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
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- 1 Freudianism considered as a pseudoscience. derogatory, uncountable
""The dealers snatched at the state of intellectual exhaustion and scepticism of all values that followed the first world war to abolish values and substitute for them an arbitrary mumbo-jumbo of occultism and pseudo-Freudianism, which they tagged on to the works of studio clowns like Picasso and Modigliani and the like. Oh, it's a depressing subject - let's forget it.""
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More examples""The dealers snatched at the state of intellectual exhaustion and scepticism of all values that followed the first world war to abolish values and substitute for them an arbitrary mumbo-jumbo of occultism and pseudo-Freudianism, which they tagged on to the works of studio clowns like Picasso and Modigliani and the like. Oh, it's a depressing subject - let's forget it.""
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