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
• But this just sends us back to psychoanalysis.
  — Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
• 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
• His films, like psychoanalysis, simply take things people already desire and fear.
  — P.e. Moskowitz, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
• So here his Freud is kind of like, what if Hopkins had invented psychoanalysis?
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 9 Jan. 2024
• But what if the very irrationality of psychoanalysis is its strength?
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2011
• Their work fit right in with the era’s fascination with psychoanalysis and mental illness.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
• Maybe there’s a different section of the paper for his psychoanalysis.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2025
• In normal psychoanalysis consultations, what is not said can be just as important as what is.
  — 1843, 26 June 2020
• Before the advent of social media, people picked up these ideas in self-help books, psychoanalysis, and pop culture.
  — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
• 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
• Jonah Freud, heir to the founder of psychoanalysis, is taking London by storm.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
• Eduard was fascinated with psychoanalysis and was a big fan of Freud.
  — National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2017
• Erik Erikson taught me how to be ambivalent about psychoanalysis.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
• 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
• We are thrust into the minutiae of the writer’s finances, feuds and psychoanalysis.
  — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2021
• 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
• Freud having said the quote, but the quote would also go against Freud's philosophy of psychoanalysis.
  — Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 18 May 2019
• Also, in those days, psychoanalysis didn’t exist.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2026
• 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
• On the plus side, though, Clayton put his remaining women through some long-overdue psychoanalysis.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2022
• The field of biographies about Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, is a crowded one.
  — Rachel Newcomb, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2022
• There is little Maron won’t share, including some fresh psychoanalysis from his girlfriend, Kit.
  — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 13 Aug. 2025
• His role was to provide real-world experience in the art of psychoanalysis and its practice, meaning that Lloyd asked him not to act.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• This is psychoanalysis, plainly, and there is no escaping the mediation of the psyche.
  — Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025