Freudian

//ˈfɹɔɪ.di.ən//

"Freudian" in a Sentence (8 examples)

This must have been some kind of Freudian slip.

A Freudian slip is when you mean one thing, but you say your mother.

The stages of psychosexual development—oral, anal, phallic, latent, and genital—turn out to be one big Freudian slip, betraying severe anal retention on the part of the taxonomist.

"The woman with the breast qualifications got the job" is an example of a Freudian slip.

Freudian slip, much?

Did you regularly attend the Interdisciplinary Freudian Group for Research and Clinical and Cultural Interventions in Quebec?

But perhaps the greatest threat of Freudian theory concerned what lurks in the unconscious mind.

To the world at large, relativity seemed to pull the rug out from under perceived reality. And for many advanced thinkers of the 1920s, from Dadaists to Cubists to Freudians, that was a fitting credo, reflecting what science historian David Cassidy calls "the incomprehensiveness of the contemporary scene--the fall of monarchies, the upheaval of the social order, indeed, all the turbulence of the 20th century."

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