Sigmund Freud

in a sentence

PERHAPS YOU'VE HEARD THE ANECDOTE about Sigmund Freud.†  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

Another great thinker who was to link his work to Darwin was the psychologist Sigmund Freud.†  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

The adaptive unconscious is not to be confused with the unconscious described by Sigmund Freud, which was a dark and murky place filled with desires and memories and fantasies that were too disturbing for us to think about consciously.†  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, Blink, 2005

I can honestly say that my misery has been transformed into common unhappiness, so by Freud's definition I have achieved mental health.†  (source) Susanna Kaysen, Girl Interrupted, 1993

No need for Freudian smart-aleckry—the explanation was simple and mechanical—the innocuous letter was lying across figure 1236, with its bold spread and rakish crown of pubic hair, while his obscene draft was on the table, within easy reach.†  (source) Ian McEwan, Atonement, 2001

She's always talking about Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis.†  (source) John Corey Whaley, Nogin, 2014

Hold it tightly by its little tentacle, don't let the Freudians coax it away or the pharmacists poison it out of you.†  (source) Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, 1966

Nicolas was forced to give up his contortions, but the whole experience made him the most popular young man of the season, the king of all the parties and of all the young girls' hearts, because while everybody else was busy studying, dressing in gray checked suits, and trying to grow a mustache to the rhythm of boleros, he was preaching free love, quoting Freud, drinking Pernod, and dancing flamenco.†  (source) Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits, 1986

Bill, who could have passed as a psychiatrist anyway, had peered at him over his hornrims and asked in a comic Freudian accent, why Robert should find such an association disturbing.†  (source) Nicholas Evans, The Horse Whisperer, 1995

I tried to explain to him how dangerous it was, particularly smoking, and even went to the trouble of finding a case history similar to his in a book by Sigmund Freud.†  (source) Paul Zindel, The Pigman, 1968

And this had eventually resulted in what the Freudians are accustomed to describe as a psychic sex scar.†  (source) Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy, 1925

Maybe it was not knowing who Freud was in a lunchtime discussion Thursday or hearing that Phillip Arden's father owns an island near Bermuda.†  (source) Ron Suskind, A Hope in the Unseen, 1998

On the contrary, the combination could be positively Freudian.†  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy, 1986