self-analysis

Example Sentences

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Though Blanchard is interviewed throughout “The Jewel Thief,” he’s not one for in-depth self-analysis — and neither is this movie, really.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2023

Jackson was not given to self-analysis, or at least not in any way that she was willing to share with the world.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2023

The self-analysis, at times, has been more brutal than any pundit could muster on their angriest day.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2023

I suppose that in dissecting the song with them, I was indulging in some self-analysis: trying to understand how a happy union of lyrics and musical notes could stay with me so meaningfully, for decades.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023

He reacts as though through self-analysis he had recognized in himself the Oedipus-complex, and had unmasked the will of the gods, as well as the oracle, as sublime disguises of his own unconsciousness.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund