freudian /froi″dē·ən/ [Sigmund Freud] , 1. adj., pertaining to Sigmund Freud; his theories and doctrines, which stress the formative years of childhood as the basis for later psychoneurotic disorders, primarily through the unconscious repression of instinctual drives and sexual desires; and his system of psychoanalysis, based on free association and dream analysis, for treating such disturbances. 2. adj., pertaining to anything that is easily interpreted according to the theories of Freud or in psychoanalytic terms. 3. adj., pertaining to the school of psychiatry based on Freud’s teachings. 4. n., one who adheres to Freud’s school of psychiatry. See also psychoanalysis.
