psychoanalytic

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

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

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Definition of psychoanalytic

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

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Recent Examples on the Web 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 Fittingly, both women offer psychoanalytic explanations for their lifelong fascination with the macabre. — Alex Hawgood, New York Times, "Grisly Murders and Serial Killers? Ooh, Tell Me More," 19 May 2018 Tuesday was the new attendees’ cocktail party, where the mood was almost effervescent, indicating that those in the psychoanalytic community don’t appear to have social anxieties — or perhaps have learned to cope with them. — Penelope Green, New York Times, "Still Talking After All These Years," 17 Feb. 2018 Still, Annihilation’s commitment to older psychoanalytic (and deconstructionist) models for the self and its inexpressible shadows makes this a readily accessible drama of emotion. — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, "Annihilation Is a Brilliant Splicing of Woolf With Cronenberg," 27 Feb. 2018 Listening to Clinton relive her defeat is like entering the psychoanalytic situation, in which the patient strings together unruly bits of personal history while the therapist pays respectful attention. — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, "Clinton is not known for the expressivity of her voice. But the What Happened audiobook is surprisingly lovely.," 13 Sep. 2017

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“Psychoanalytic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/psychoanalytic. Accessed 15 Aug. 2020.

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