Freudian

[Ron Butters]

These examples all fall well within the "pertaining to Freud's teachings" so a separate definition is unnecessary. Of course, there is often disagreement about what is or is not lexicosemantic and what is encyclopedic.

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From: victor steinbok <aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM>
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Date: Saturday, August 20, 2011 11:46:06 AM GMT-0400
Subject: [ADS-L] Freudian

There is an adjective and a noun entry in the OED. The adjective is only "Of
or pertaining to Freud or his teaching." There is also "Freudian slip" under
compounds, but no figurative/ironic sense of Freudian.

Examples:

http://goo.gl/o6m9z

> Moreover, "fascinating new phrases like 'it's so Freudian' ... are on
> everyone's lips" (8) and indeed, Lestat's life story, beginning with "his
> great and unshakable love" for his mother, Gabrielle, is so "Freudian" that
> one hardly needs to tease out the repressed content (30).


http://goo.gl/ogFo6
p. 79
New York Magazine. Oct 15, 1984
Colin Gregg's direction is carefully measured and unobtrusive; he is
brooding, too, about art and family life, philosophy and love, the
lighthouse (so male, so phallic, so Freudian) and the sea (rhythmic waves,
mothering).

Certainly, substitution of "Freudian" for "phallic" is quite common.

VS-)

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