How to Use psychoanalysis in a Sentence

psychoanalysis

noun

• 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
• Her parents inherited his home, a cabin in the woods, stocked with books on Freud and dreams and psychoanalysis.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 22 June 2024
• 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
• The critic helps us arts folks cope with the chaos by calling on Homer and psychoanalysis to survive till November and beyond.
  — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
• 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
• So here his Freud is kind of like, what if Hopkins had invented psychoanalysis?
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 9 Jan. 2024
• 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
• Erik Erikson taught me how to be ambivalent about psychoanalysis.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024