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Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939)

Oh, I could give you Freudian reasons with fancy talk, and that would be right as far as it went.
Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

I missed it when he turned into Sigmund Freud.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
Another great thinker who was to link his work to Darwin was the psychologist Sigmund Freud.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
On the contrary, the combination could be positively Freudian.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
Could there be some sort of Freudian symbolism in your choice of similes?
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
The meeting of Sigmund Freud and Ward McAllister.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
If I were a patient, I'd ponderously explain that it was an extension of some Freudian dream sequence because it never happens but it happened to me.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
She's always talking about Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis."
John Corey Whaley -- Nogin
You want a book by...Sigmund Freud?
Kathryn Stockett -- The Help
He argued against completely eliminating the golden arches, claiming they had great Freudian importance in the subconscious mind of consumers.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
Had he been laughed at, to adopt the Freudian theory, in his cradle by a pretty girl?
Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
PERHAPS YOU'VE HEARD THE ANECDOTE about Sigmund Freud.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
I'm no Freudian man or anything like that, but certain things you can't just pass over as capital-F Freudian and let them go at that.
J.D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey
Like Freudian dreams, they must be thrown off, else they would sweep in and lay siege to her nerves.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
"bursting the bonds of tyranny," and the like, may come across to this post-Freudian age as mawkish posturing, romantic sentimentalism, hollow platitudes.
James M. McPherson -- What They Fought For - 1861-1865
The year—the real year of a person going to school—began, and for a long while I had no time at all to think about, let alone discuss, the writings of Sigmund Freud.
Chaim Potok -- The Chosen
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.
Paul Zindel -- The Pigman
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.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
"THE TRUTHS CONTAINED in religious doctrines are after all so distorted and systematically disguised," writes Sigmund Freud, that the mass of humanity cannot recognize them as truth.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
I hope it will inspire younger men and women, the only ones who can be inspired, to have a try at Theodore, or Militarism; Jane, or Pacifism; at So-and-So, the Pragmatist or the Freudian.
Voltaire -- Candide

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