Freudianism
nounEtymology From Freudian + -ism.
1
Human sciences, Medicine, Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Sciences Usually Freudian beliefs and practices, particularly the mechanism of psychological repression, the centrality of sexual desire to the development of the persona, and the efficacy of the "talking cure" or psychoanalytic technique.
- Derived terms
- neo-Freudianism, pseudo-Freudianism
- Related terms
- ego, id, pleasure principle, reality principle, superego