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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of psychologize.

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  • Here is Marjorie Perloff (Bookforum), her review - Sniveling Rivalry - Alexander Waugh psychologizes the troubled Wittgenstein clan

    Vitro Nasu » 2009 » May 2009

  • Here is Marjorie Perloff (Bookforum), her review - Sniveling Rivalry - Alexander Waugh psychologizes the troubled Wittgenstein clan

    The House of Wittgenstein 2009

  • As John Steinbeck psychologizes the story of Genesis in East of Eden, the younger son resents the fact that their father (rather transparently named Adam in Steinbeck's account) prefers his eldest born to the younger son.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • Exteriorizing thought, the sonnet de-psychologizes it, materializes it, alienates it from the thinker as subject by placing any given sonnet about the beloved other in a syntagmatic relation to all other thoughts about other beloved others.

    Thinking about the Other in Romantic Love 1998

  • And then "Poison" psychologizes addiction, through versions of it: alcohol or a woman with a "razor tongue and a heart as blue as glacier ice."

    NYT > Home Page By JON CARAMANICA 2011

  • And then "Poison" psychologizes addiction, through versions of it: alcohol or a woman with a "razor tongue and a heart as blue as glacier ice."

    NYT > Home Page By JON CARAMANICA 2011

  • Errol Morris in the film, which implicitly psychologizes its subject and watches as he talks himself deeper and deeper into a hole.

    Seattle Weekly | Complete Issue 2009

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