psychoˈanalyse, v.
Also with hyphen.
[Back-formation from next, after analysis, analyse.]
trans. To subject to or treat by psychoanalysis; = analyse v. 3 b. Also absol.
| 1911 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. July 423 It is..hoped that Freud will..psychoanalyze Goethe. 1922 J. Macy in D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers p. ix, Let whoever cares to try analyze or psychoanalyze. 1924 C. Mackenzie Heavenly Ladder xxiii. 288, I could psycho-analyse all Bloomsbury now. They all suffer from an inferiority complex. 1969 Listener 14 Aug. 219/2 Professor Baker scrupulously does not diagram, hypothesise or psycho⁓analyse. 1973 Amer. N. & Q. XI. 78/1 To psychoanalyze a dramatic hero is to treat him as a human being. |
Hence psychoˈanalysed ppl. a.
| 1928 ‘R. West’ Strange Necessity 240 A psycho⁓analysed person who has made the realization that all persons he dreams of are disguised versions of himself. |