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Pronunciation: [fɹˈɔ͡ɪdi͡ənz] (IPA)

Freudians are those who follow the theories of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis. However, there are several other synonyms for Freudians that can be used to describe their beliefs and practices. These include psychoanalysts, psychodynamic therapists, and depth psychologists. These terms all refer to professionals who delve deep into the unconscious mind and use techniques such as free association, dream analysis, and interpretation to help clients understand their innermost thoughts and feelings. These therapists often believe in the power of early childhood experiences and the impact they have on adult behavior. While the ideas of Freud have evolved over time, these synonyms are a testament to the continuing influence of his work in modern psychotherapy.
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It is often merely a sublimated passion for morality, or the result, as Freudians have shown, of a hysterical attachment to parents, or the idealization of a father.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
For the McDougallians look upon the world with two eyes and see it whole and broad-the Freudians see through their telescope a circular field and exclaim that they behold the universe.
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.
The dark places in human nature seem to have become the sole monopoly of the Freudians and their psychology.
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.

Famous quotes with Freudians

  • Jung believed that he was proceeding scientifically, but most Freudians remain convinced that he was inventing his own underground realm, rather as Tolkien invented Middle Earth. There is at least an element of truth in this view.
    Colin Wilson
  • “I came," she said, "hoping you could talk me out of a fantasy. "Cherish it!" cried Hilarious, fiercely. "What else do any of you have? Hold it tightly by it's little tentacle, don't let the Freudians coax it away or the pharmacists poison it out of you. Whatever it is, hold it dear, for when you lose it you go over by that much to the others. You begin to cease to be.”
    Thomas Pynchon
  • No matter how heretical the neo- and post-Freudians imagined they were in theorizing about the “values,” “insecurities,” “goals” of the individual, they were safely following the official ideology of the private and autonomous individual and consumer.
    Russell Jacoby
  • The post-Freudians … have fallen victim to the ravages of the intellectual division of labor.
    Russell Jacoby
  • [Carl] Rogers’s Encounter Groups … is copy for the campaign of self-manipulation in an age of mass manipulation. … The notion here is simple: the real person is locked within the artificial, the role, and needs a little encouragement to step out into the fresh air. As with the neo-Freudians, society is conceived as an external factor, an outside force acting on the individual, but not decisively casting the individual from without and from within. The mechanical conception, severing within and without, and presupposing that only the outside is prey to social forces, is assumed or stated throughout the post-Freudian writings.
    Russell Jacoby

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