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pseudo-Freudianism

pseudo-Freudianism noun: freudianism considered as a pseudoscience.

Noun

pseudo-Freudianism (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory) Freudianism considered as a pseudoscience.
    • "The dealers snatched at the state of intellectual exhaustion and scepticism of all values that followed the first world war to abolish values and substitute for them an arbitrary mumbo-jumbo of occultism and pseudo-Freudianism, which they tagged on to the works of studio clowns like Picasso and...1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 81

Questions about pseudo-Freudianism

What does pseudo-Freudianism mean?
Pseudo-Freudianism means freudianism considered as a pseudoscience.
What part of speech is pseudo-Freudianism?
Pseudo-Freudianism is a noun.

Words near pseudo-Freudianism in the dictionary

  1. pseudo-files
  2. pseudo-folklore
  3. pseudo-force
  4. pseudo-forces
  5. pseudo-Foster Kennedy syndrome
  6. pseudo-Freudianism
  7. pseudo-haiku
  8. pseudo-histories
  9. pseudo-history
  10. pseudo-innocently
  11. pseudo-inspirational

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