How to Use psychoanalysis in a Sentence

psychoanalysis

noun
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  • And so then as an actor, your job is to do a deep psychoanalysis of what that means.
    — Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 22 Apr. 2023
  • By the end of the 20th century, the two disciplines, psychoanalysis and neuroscience, did not even seem to be talking about the same thing.
    — Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2014
  • Me, which allows users to become their own therapist by taking on the body of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis.
    — Elizabeth Bernstein, WSJ, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Like few other structures, the Winchester Mystery House makes for an easy metaphor for psychoanalysis’s sense of the mind.
    — Colin Dickey, New Republic, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Ten years of psychoanalysis might give you the same ability.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 22 May 2018
  • The field of biographies about Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, is a crowded one.
    — Rachel Newcomb, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2022
  • This night at the theater at home featured a plot driven by psychoanalysis and songs that unfurled within dreams.
    — Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Simenon’s subject is how people who are pushed to the edge push themselves over it; the force of the sleuthing is that of psychoanalysis, not police interrogation.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
  • After learning the art of cold writing and psychoanalysis from Pete, Stan leaves and reinvents himself as a psychic for the wealthy.
    — Katherine Tinsley, Good Housekeeping, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Freud having said the quote, but the quote would also go against Freud's philosophy of psychoanalysis.
    — Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 18 May 2019
  • We are thrust into the minutiae of the writer’s finances, feuds and psychoanalysis.
    — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Later, Oppenheimer lets on, in a quick aside, that he was forced into psychoanalysis as a result.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 July 2023
  • And the particularity of the tone is psychoanalysis at its best—nothing to say.
    — Jamieson Webster, The New York Review of Books, 1 Apr. 2020
  • With psychoanalysis, clients stretched out on a couch, facing away from the therapist, and spoke about their memories of events once forgotten.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 25 May 2023
  • Others face the past by writing or through psychoanalysis.
    — Mary Gallagher, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
  • Although childhood passes in a few pages, Chafkin gives the reader inclined to armchair psychoanalysis plenty with which to work.
    — Moira Weigel, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Eduard was fascinated with psychoanalysis and was a big fan of Freud.
    — National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2017
  • Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, is played by Austrian actor Robert Finster.
    — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 23 Mar. 2020
  • The hackneyed premise about a film-nerd cuckold in need of psychoanalysis distracts from the real-life dilemma of personal betrayal.
    — Armond White, National Review, 4 Feb. 2022
  • On the plus side, though, Clayton put his remaining women through some long-overdue psychoanalysis.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2022
  • But what if the very irrationality of psychoanalysis is its strength?
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2011
  • Because, as Rose says, For psychoanalysis, nothing perishes in the mind.
    — Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Rather than offer his own armchair psychoanalysis on Neumann and his wife Rebekah, Wiedeman arranges the absurd details of their high lives in the C-suite into a pointillist portrait of wild hubris.
    — Wired Staff, Wired, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Crews maintains that all of the transgressions he documents are relevant to his case against psychoanalysis.
    — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 5 Sep. 2017
  • In certain schools of psychoanalysis, namely that of Sigmund Freud, dreams are considered to be a snapshot of our unconscious desires.
    — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • In the course of two days, Lopez spoke for hours at a stretch, with clarity and unguardedness; having spent years in psychoanalysis, he is practiced in poring over his experiences.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2019
  • But until the 1960s the Roman Catholic Church expressed skepticism of psychoanalysis.
    — Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Viewed from beyond the United States, the story of psychoanalysis in the later years of the Cold War is not strictly one of decline, but of reinvention, renewal and proliferation.
    — Warren Breckman, New Republic, 1 June 2017
  • In normal psychoanalysis consultations, what is not said can be just as important as what is.
    — 1843, 26 June 2020

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