How to Use Freudian in a Sentence

Freudian

adjective

• In Freudian terms, the ego is not a master in its own house.
  — Orna Guralnik, New York Times, 16 May 2023
• And here’s where things get tricky, and more than a little Freudian.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2023
• In fact, the South Africa native made something of a Freudian slip.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 25 July 2023
• The word juts out of Drake’s brooding chorus like a Freudian slip.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2023
• Along the way, Joe’s father shows up, triggering 15 minutes of mild Freudian trauma.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Dec. 2023
• The show and the movie both portray her at a distance, from a viewpoint of Freudian comic horror and pity, compared with the more complete portraits of Marty and his father.
  — Theater Review Aug. 3, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2023
• Rose recently had a row with Edith and her Freudian nightmare of a father (Timothy Spall), so there’s motive.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2024
• But there’s another path that’s more complex, more Freudian, about how work in America has warped our senses of time and even our own bodies.
  — Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• While that Freudian analysis is certainly up for debate, there could be something to it.
  — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 31 Jan. 2024
• Jacqueline Rose is a semi-lapsed Freudian and very sharp literary critic.
  — Lisa Levy, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
• Is the entire country suffering from a Freudian desire to relive the consummation of high-school prom?
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024
• Heavy cannons are Freudian winks at the opera’s libidinous energies.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
• But conjuring up the Freudian unconscious in conversations with my kids keeps him close.
  — Gillian Silverman, The New Yorker, 15 July 2023
• The anecdote, with its heavy Freudian implications, provoked peals of laughter.
  — Elizabeth Winkler, The New Yorker, 23 June 2023
• But, without getting too Freudian, Thomas also reminds us that none of these suffering creatures are—or are only—types.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2024
• But, without getting too Freudian, Thomas also reminds us that none of these suffering creatures are — or are only — types.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024
• Because of all the things Barbie has done in her 32 years, from disco dancing to running a dude ranch, that little doll has never submitted herself to Freudian analysis.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2023
• The guy who seemed destined to replace his father, a fulfillment of his dreams and his Freudian battle, was left with nothing — or, to clarify, left with nothing but the consolations of billions of dollars.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
• Classic Freudian psychoanalysis had its heyday in America in the fifties and early sixties, but by the seventies a shift was under way.
  — Gillian Silverman, The New Yorker, 15 July 2023
• Altman later recanted his comments and said they were taken out of context–but his Freudian slip did illustrate the ignorance of Silicon Valley.
  — Vivek Wadhwa, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2023
• As predictable as the turf fights, Freudian jealousies and ultimate happy ending were, Brian Keith and Day (in her final big-screen performance) gave even the hokiest plot points wry authenticity.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• Rather, here in the New World, popularized versions of Freudian theory justified relinquishment: Young mothers were neurotics with pregnancy fantasies that stemmed from a confused sense of womanhood.
  — Maria Laurino, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
• But there was a school of thought within psychoanalysis that believed Freudian analysis was itself part of the problem; that it was too invested in helping people accommodate themselves to the problematic structure of society.
  — Thomas Beller, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
• The truth, amply demonstrated in this biography, with so many pages devoted to the gentle coaxing of writers, is that editors exercise Freudian transference with their writers far more potently than Freudian analysts do with their patients.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
• Or, for that matter, answer for the confusing Freudian world-building, crossover obsessions, and often dark-revisionist doomscrolling that’s characterized so much of this particular franchise.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2023
• Sullivan, who died in 1949, eschewed the Freudian paradigm of the therapist as a blank screen; the interpersonal analyst might find opportunities to make reciprocal conversation with patients or even offer advice.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 June 2023
• Mark Edmundson examines the psychological dimensions of today’s judgmentalism through a Freudian lens.
  — Michael S. Roth, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
• Like crosswords, Freudian psychoanalysis runs on word association and linguistic substitutions.
  — Anna Shechtman, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 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

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024