psychoanalytic
adjective
psy·cho·an·a·lyt·ic
ˌsī-kō-ˌa-nə-ˈli-tik 
variants
or less commonly psychoanalytical
: of, relating to, or employing psychoanalysis or its principles and techniques
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Fever dream asides where Cooper hallucinates his once-too-doting and now-dead mother unfortunately underscore how psychologically pat Shyamalan’s script is, skirting symbolism without taking a psychoanalytic plunge below flesh level.
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Aug. 2024
Like a psychoanalytic symptom, prices condense and communicate fragments of knowledge that are obscure to the conscious mind.
—Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024
Fascinated by Freud’s writings on the complexity of the human psyche and the role of the unconscious mind, Dr. Crews had applied a psychoanalytic approach to literary criticism at the outset of his career, including in a 1966 study of author Nathaniel Hawthorne.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
But this warped and perverse thriller features a psychopathic twink antihero worthy of Pedro Almodóvar, and enough psychoanalytic fodder to fill years of sessions with the deepest Freudian head case.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 June 2024
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Aug. 2024
Like a psychoanalytic symptom, prices condense and communicate fragments of knowledge that are obscure to the conscious mind.
—Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024
Fascinated by Freud’s writings on the complexity of the human psyche and the role of the unconscious mind, Dr. Crews had applied a psychoanalytic approach to literary criticism at the outset of his career, including in a 1966 study of author Nathaniel Hawthorne.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
But this warped and perverse thriller features a psychopathic twink antihero worthy of Pedro Almodóvar, and enough psychoanalytic fodder to fill years of sessions with the deepest Freudian head case.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 June 2024
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psychoanalytic
adjective
psy·cho·an·a·lyt·ic
ˌsī-kō-ˌan-ᵊl-ˈit-ik
variants
also psychoanalytical
: of, relating to, or using psychoanalysis or its principles and techniques
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psychoanalytic
adjective
psy·cho·an·a·lyt·ic
-ˌan-ᵊl-ˈit-ik
variants
also psychoanalytical
: of, relating to, or employing psychoanalysis or its principles and techniques
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