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
