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psychoanalytic

psychoanalytic adjective: of or relating to psychoanalysis.

Adjective

psychoanalytic (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to psychoanalysis.
    • Despite the accuracy of his observations, Rechy's political analysis of S&M, although it includes some good insights, is limited, moralistic, and tainted with psychoanalytic bias, and makes the leather scene into a place of warped madness and sickness.1974 February 2, Eric Rofes, “For Leathermen Who Have Considered S&M”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 19
    • For example, psychoanalytic patients often resist remembering their childhood because they fear they will end up blaming their parents for their problems and feel guilty for betraying them.2000 May 28, Peter Wolson, “A World of Psychophobia”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 10 May 2025

Examples of psychoanalytic in a sentence

  • It is the psychoanalytic inflections that elevate this book above so much recent “techlash” literature.
  • Our data are taken from verbatim transcripts of tape-recorded psychoanalytic sessions.
  • The great value of Bloom's work is its emphasis on a psychoanalytic perspective, however gnostified, mystified, cabbalized that perspective may be.

All 13 example sentences with psychoanalytic

Synonyms of psychoanalytic

Origin of psychoanalytic

From psycho- + analytic.

Words formed from psychoanalytic

Questions about psychoanalytic

What does psychoanalytic mean?
Psychoanalytic means of or relating to psychoanalysis.
What part of speech is psychoanalytic?
Psychoanalytic is an adjective.

Words near psychoanalytic in the dictionary

  1. psychoanalyses
  2. psychoanalysing
  3. psychoanalysis
  4. psychoanalyst
  5. psychoanalysts
  6. psychoanalytic
  7. psychoanalytical
  8. psychoanalytically
  9. psychoanalytics
  10. psychoanalyze
  11. psychoanalyzed

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