psychoanalytic

adjective

psy·​cho·​an·​a·​lyt·​ic ˌsī-kō-ˌa-nə-ˈli-tik 

variants or less commonly psychoanalytical

ˌsī-kō-ˌa-nə-ˈli-ti-kəl 

: of, relating to, or employing psychoanalysis or its principles and techniques

psychoanalytically

ˌsī-kō-ˌa-nə-ˈli-ti-k(ə-)lē 

adverb

Examples of psychoanalytic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Dolls have a long literary, psychoanalytic, and artistic history that ASMA drew from for the show. —Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 7 Mar. 2025

In total, the notes on her one psychoanalytic paper take up just 14 pages of the four volumes of the Minutes of the Psychoanalytic Society. —Marcy Thompson, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2025

Rafael Holmberg is a political writer and researcher on philosophy and psychoanalytic theory. —Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025

In the right light, the social network for professionals is a lavish psychoanalytic corpus, bursting with naked ambition, inspiration, desperation, status-seeking, spiritual yearning, brownnosing, name-dropping, corporate shilling, and self-promotion. —Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1906, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for psychoanalytic

• autocatalytic
• photocatalytic
• analytic
• anxiolytic
• astrocytic
• austenitic
• catalytic
• cytolytic
• dioritic
• diphtheritic
• dolomitic
• endophytic

Kids Definition

psychoanalytic

adjective

psy·​cho·​an·​a·​lyt·​ic ˌsī-kō-ˌan-ᵊl-ˈit-ik 

variants also psychoanalytical

-i-kəl 

: of, relating to, or using psychoanalysis or its principles and techniques

Medical Definition

psychoanalytic

adjective

psy·​cho·​an·​a·​lyt·​ic -ˌan-ᵊl-ˈit-ik 

variants also psychoanalytical

-i-kəl 

: of, relating to, or employing psychoanalysis or its principles and techniques

psychoanalytically

-i-k(ə-)lē 

adverb