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Neo-Freudian

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Ne·o-Freud·i·an (n-froid-n)
adj.
Of, relating to, or characterizing any psychoanalytic system based on but modifying Freudian doctrine by emphasizing social factors, interpersonal relations, or other cultural influences in personality development or in causation of the neuroses.
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the neo-Freudian The Wound and the Bow (1947), which includes his classic study of Charles Dickens's childhood trauma and how it made him, and the most pungent of his five journals, from the 1920s and 1960s.
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Both classical psychoanalytic theory and its neo-Freudian version concur: In the third stage of psychosexual development the superego evolves.
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