psychologize

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1. To interpret or analyze in psychological terms

   Let it be clear, however, that we are not psychologizing here; rather we are presenting at most a characteriology of thought.

   2023, Jean-Luc Nancy, Derrida

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   The absence of psychologizing, as in Jon Jost's thematically similar and equally haunting Last Chants for a Slow Dance (1977), liberates the imagination in relation to Benning's beautifully composed images, and this respect for the viewer's intelligence pays off in highly charged dividends.

   1988 January 8, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “10 From '87”, in Chicago Reader