self-analysis
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A post-Wimbledon trip to the Greek island of Mykonos provided an opportunity for further self-analysis.
From BBC • Sep. 6, 2025
In conversation, Kravchenko is measured, circumspect, unsparing in her self-analysis, with flashes of wry humor.
From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2022
Self-criticism term for a method of public self-analysis proposed by Mao Tse-Tung as a means to achieve personal and societal improvement.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
It’s certainly true that this short book contains many of his trademarks: discursive and periodic sentences, arcane jargon, endless self-analysis.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2022
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
