psychoanalytic

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

variants: or less commonly psychoanalytical \ ˌsī-kō-ˌa-nə-ˈli-ti-kəl

Definition of psychoanalytic

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

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Recent Examples on the Web The term stems from psychoanalytic theories of mourning and melancholia first introduced by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. — Tim Chan, Rolling Stone, "Screw the ‘Model Minority’ Myth: Why It’s Time for Asians to Fight Back," 23 Apr. 2021 The experience is like a psychoanalytic unpacking, at warp speed, of a national unconscious regarding race. — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, "Sorrows of Black America," 22 Feb. 2021 According to a psychoanalytic framework, trauma is a shock so overwhelming that it cannot be mentally processed. — James Robins, The New Republic, "Can Historians Be Traumatized by History?," 16 Feb. 2021 Sadly, this does not add up to a relationship from which searing psychoanalytic insight is gained. — Jd Heyman, EW.com, "The price of nice: What the Ellen DeGeneres controversy means for the future of her show — and for us," 21 Sep. 2020 Ball offers a particularly piercing psychoanalytic reading of the present, even though his subject is the past. — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, "The Cyclical Psychology of White Supremacy," 3 Aug. 2020 The psychoanalytic focus on drives tends to empty the content from political commitment. — Sophie Pinkham, The New Republic, "How Vivian Gornick Reinvigorated Political Writing," 1 May 2020 In his book States of Denial, the late psychoanalytic sociologist Stanley Cohen described three forms of denial. — Zoe Leviston, Quartz, "There are three types of climate change denier—and most of us are at least one," 15 Oct. 2019 As such a pronouncement indicates, Mr. Tóibín is writing here as a psychoanalytic literary biographer, somewhat in the Janet Malcolm mode. — Maureen Corrigan, WSJ, "‘Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know’ Review: Prodigal Fathers, Difficult Sons," 25 Oct. 2018

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“Psychoanalytic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/psychoanalytic. Accessed 15 May. 2021.

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