post-Freudian

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post-Freud·ian | \ˌpōst-ˈfrȯi-dē-ən

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Definition of post-Freudian

: following the introduction and widespread recognition of the psychoanalytic theories and practices of Sigmund Freud post-Freudian psychoanalysis The Switch squeezes fresh laughs out of what is, in essence, a rather startlingly post-Freudian … view of child development.— Owen Glieberman Caravaggio frequently painted himself into his works, often behind a patina of self-loathing, at least to post-Freudian eyes.— Bruce Handy

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post-Freudian noun plural post-Freudians

His mother, to whom Wilfred cleaved with what will strike post-Freudians as an abnormal devotion, was pious, puritanical, and strong-willed, entirely dedicated to her four children, but especially to Wilfred, the eldest. — Paul Fussell

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