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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 29 Aug 2024