Sentences with phrase «most freudian»

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I would advise against anyone who is predominantly Freudian in their approach, it is a somewhat antiquated basis, and not suited to most situations.

Second, the psychologist most frequently associated with Nietzsche is Freud, but Brooks isn't at all talking Freudian psychology when he tells us that «it is possible to achieve momentary harmony through creative work,» or that we don't secure «the good life through heroic self - analysis but through mundane, self - forgetting effort, and through everyday routines.»

To grasp how these forces worked, one must understand that Greenberg accepts the anthropological insight, shared by Freudians and most sexologists, that human sexuality is extremely plastic and innately nonspecific with regard to sexual objects.

Freud eventually admitted that — despite the most purely Freudian self - analysis in history — even he was not immune to the forces of repressed sexuality.

«Most of the dream studies that have come out have been either just categorising what's in the dreams or seriously driven by Freudian theory,» Stickgold says.

Since Darwin there are few professional biologists who are not Darwinians, and if most psychologists no longer call themselves Freudians, few doubt that there is an unconscious or that sexuality plays a big role in it.

Most of its 101 minutes are filled with routine slasher scenes and flecks of pop - Freudian hokum about why the infamous Michael Myers (Tyler Mane) is such a murderously unhappy guy.

Buñuel conjures with Freudian imagery, outrageous humor, and a quiet, lyrical camera style to create one of his most complex and complete works, a film that continues to disturb and transfix.

But though it derives from an ancient Greek myth, auteur Yorgos Lanthimos» most recent English - language film, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, spoke to me of a more Freudian concept: the idea of psychology as an impossible, inner dystopia.

Some critics complained that Panic's motive is too single - minded, but this is a film about Freudian mid-life crisis, the most self - interested dilemma there is, and I really admired the various textures Bromell brought to a simple premise.

Pointing the way toward the psychological bent Mann would give his Westerns, especially in the Stewart films, The Furies plays up its Freudian complications and allusions to Greek tragedy, going to places far darker and disturbing than most Westerns of its time.

Cooper claims Argento, though labeled early in his career as the «Italian Hitchcock,» spent his early, gialli - focused years lambasting and lampooning «Freudian proclivities,» most notably in The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1969), which positions itself as a Psycho (1960) homage, only to jest at Hitchcock's insistence upon closure via psychological ends.

A star of New York's art scene in the 1980s, the artist Eric Fischl earned the healthy reputation of being a «bad boy,» both the title of his most famous work — a painting of a young boy openly watching a nude woman picking at her toes while he surreptitiously slides his hand into her Freudian purse — and of his recent tell - all autobiography of the period.

Freudian psychoanalytic theory was a crucial component of the Surrealist sensibility, and it also enjoyed a huge following among New York intellectuals; for Gottlieb, an additional appeal was that Freudian theory was saturated with allusions to classical mythology - the most famous instance, of course, being Freud's theory of the Oedipus complex.

Just read the prescient warning for moderates that Greenaway included in «The Id of Republican Politics,» a Freudian analysis of the power of Trumpism that he posted one year ago, well before most Beltway insiders realized what was happening:

I obviously can't know what Roy's motivations are, but this looks suspiciously like a textbook case of Freudian projection, because the fact is that information regarding large climate changes in the past is regarded by most climate scientists as an essential check on their projections of future climate, whereas it is extremely inconvenient for Roy Spencer's ideas.

It is now percolating into general culture and I expect that within our generation most people will be using fluently the new language of how the mind «computes attitudes,» or «encodes» social knowledge, or how a «heuristic» might make «evolutionary» or «ecological» sense, and so on, eventually replacing Freudian psychology which dominated 20th century's take on how the mind works.

The ethology of attachment theory posits that the most critical component of child - parent relationships is the desire to seek safety, rather than the Freudian - proposed hunger drive -LRB-

The ethology of attachment theory posits that the most critical component of child - parent relationships is the desire to seek safety, rather than the Freudian - proposed hunger drive (Blizard & Bluhm, 1994; Bowlby, 1988; Fairbain, 1952).