Sentences with phrase «something freudian»

Probably something Freudian but it's still fun.

I think there's something Freudian in that, but I was also struck by the concept of two individuals collaborating on one book.

Samantha is not only emotionally available, but the way she care - takes Theodore (reminding him what he has to do that day, going through his emails to tell him what needs immediate attention, sending a manuscript of his writing to a publisher unbeknownst to him) is more like a mother than a girlfriend — and there's something Freudian right there.

Seems to be his favourite retort, something Freudian perhaps?

Not exact matches

The letters reflect a deep and searching friendship, not unlike other letters of Wojtyła's,... Stourton, however... throws them into the Freudian Mixmaster... and then suggests that there was something... that, while not quite untoward, should nonetheless change our perceptions of John Paul II (wink, wink, nod, nod).

Beck proposes that the daycare panic was a case of classic Freudian repression — that act of mental avoidance whereby we don't want to admit that we know or desire something, and so compensate by insisting, rather too forcefully, that we know or desire its opposite.

Don't boast about your possessions or your achievements — there's bound to be a Freudian in the room who'll point out that you are displacing your desire for something more significant in the way of bodily attributes or fulfilling relationships.

And whilst such relationships are still bedevilled by Freudian taboos, older women shouldn't feel dissuaded from starting something with a younger man just because society dictates otherwise.

And whilst such relationships are still bedevilled by Freudian taboos, older women shouldn't feel dissuaded from starting something with a younger man, nor should younger men hold back from dating older women just because society dictates otherwise.

The government, in the person of Sir Alistair Dormandy (Kenneth Branagh), a prig whose Freudian slips belie the conservative agenda he champions, dislikes the music on principle, and delights observing that the wonderful thing about being in power is that you can make something you don't like illegal.

Nicolas Roeg turns the beauty and decay of Venice into something terrifying and insists, in an almost Freudian way, on the proximity of eroticism to death.

Nicknaming Stern's character «Spider» for no real reason but to, eight years after its release and just now finding its way to DVD, connect it in a disturbing way to David Cronenberg's thirteenth film by way of arrested Freudian developmental phases and fixations on body function, Bushwhacked, as it happens, is also about as funny as Spider — not a particularly shining endorsement of something that's ostensibly a comedy.

It's something that Georgia O'Keeffe herself didn't even accept — she rejected any Freudian interpretation of these — so I don't know where on the spectrum they lie truly, but they were very shocking, open images that, regardless of what she says about them, we experience as having to do with female sexuality.

Touching on the Freudian conception of «unheimlich,» or the uncanny feeling of something that is familiar yet discordant, Park illuminated his lengthy exploration of the dissonance of Korean identity, the notion of home in light of his country's divisive history, and the politics of the Korean War.

Violence and its Freudian cousin voyeurism play lead actors in this group of psychologically charged assemblages whose small - scale format adds to the sense of nervous suspense and where lust, seduction and yearning get collaged into something that only the viewer - cum - voyeur can drag up from deep within.

That is something you ought to question, You of course understand the basis of Freudian psychology says just the opposite.

Maybe that was a Freudian slip, but if a Supreme Court justice uses a word, it should mean something.

Either that was a Freudian slip at a moment when he was trying to avoid doing something in my presence, or he has health issues I frankly don't need to know about.