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Freud

Freud

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An Austrian doctor who started psychoanalysis and studied the unconscious mind
  • proper noun
  • /frɔɪd/
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  • Sigmund Freud developed many ideas about human behavior and the unconscious mind.
  • Freud's psychoanalysis
  • Freud's theory
  • Freud's ideas

But I just want to read you Freud's stance on happiness.

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Examples

  • Around this same time, Sigmund Freud was rising to fame.

  • We can draw a certain number of conclusions from Freud's method of reading artistic works.

    Academic text (1990)
  • So that function of dreams, says Freud, is to protect sleep.

  • I think you should be asking Doctor Freud instead of me about that segment.

  • It's on this basis that Freud associated romantic love with the death instinct.

    Academic text (2011)
  • In other words, Freud made dream science a domain of brain science, of neuroscience.

  • My film is on the early years of Sigmund Freud and the influence on Victorian culture.

  • So let's take a look at perhaps Freud's most famous case study, Little Hans.

  • Well, Freud was right.

  • Paging Dr. Freud.

Synonyms

Sigmund Freud
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An Austrian doctor who started psychoanalysis and studied the unconscious mind

focuses on specific theories about the unconscious mind

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Etymology

Freud comes from an old German word Freude, which means 'joy' or 'pleasure'. A helpful way to remember this is that Sigmund Freud studied human desire and what people do for pleasure, so his name seems to fit his work.