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Examples Word Origin
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1.
psych1.
Psyche
[sahy-kee]
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noun
1.
Classical Mythology. a personification of the soul, which in the form of a beautiful girl was loved by Eros.
2.
(lowercase) the human soul, spirit, or mind.
3.
(lowercase) Psychology, Psychoanalysis. the mental or psychological structure of a person, especially as a motive force.
4.
Neoplatonism. the second emanation of the One, regarded as a universal consciousness and as the animating principle of the world.
5.
a female given name.
Origin of Psyche Expand
LatinGreek
1650-16601650-60 for def 2; < Latin psȳchē < Greek psȳchḗ literally, breath, derivative of psȳ́chein to breathe, blow, hence, live (see psycho- )
psych1or psyche
[sahyk]
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verb (used with object), Informal.
1.
to intimidate or frighten psychologically, or make nervous (often followed by out):
to psych out the competition.
2.
to prepare psychologically to be in the right frame of mind or to give one’s best (often followed by up):
to psych oneself up for an interview.
3.
to figure out psychologically; decipher (often followed by out):
to psych out a problem.
Origin Expand
1915-20 in earlier sense “to subject to psychoanalysis”; originally a shortening of psychoanalyze; in later use (especially in defs. 1 and 2) perhaps independent use of psych-
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Contemporary Examples
Mercury retrograde inspires you to revisit ignored destiny callings that still silently echo in your psyche.
Starsky + Cox
August 5, 2011
These pressures in the psyche are as taxing as physical hardships.
June 30, 2012
Still, the white-knight syndrome is deeply embedded in the Republican psyche.
June 22, 2010
“It took months for this initial trauma to ebb, years for my psyche to regain its equilibrium,” Sullivan writes.

Historical Examples
psyche approached it timidly, and presently found courage to enter.

Gods and Heroes
R. E. Francillon
“And you know we shall be in mourning,” said psyche to her brother.

The Spenders
Harry Leon Wilson
How freely psyche breathed, in the innocently white glowing fire!

Psyche
Louis Couperus
Of course this isn’t all mine; it includes ma’s and psyche ‘s.

The Spenders
Harry Leon Wilson
The beautiful fable of the winged deity’s love for psyche, is the most pleasing of those related of him.

British Dictionary definitions for psyche
psyche
/ˈsaɪkɪ/
noun
1.
the human mind or soul
Word Origin
C17: from Latin, from Greek psukhē breath, soul; related to Greek psukhein to breathe
Psyche
/ˈsaɪkɪ/
noun
1.
(Greek myth) a beautiful girl loved by Eros (Cupid), who became the personification of the soul
psych
/saɪk/
verb
1.
(transitive) ( informal) to psychoanalyse See also psych out, psych up
Word Origin
C20: shortened from psychoanalyse
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Word Origin and History for psyche Expand
n.
1640s, “animating spirit,” from Latin psyche, from Greek psykhe “the soul, mind, spirit; breath; life, one’s life, the invisible animating principle or entity which occupies and directs the physical body; understanding” (personified as Psykhe, the beloved of Eros), akin to psykhein “to blow, cool,” from PIE root *bhes- “to blow, to breathe” (cf. Sanskrit bhas-), “Probably imitative” [Watkins].

Also in ancient Greek, “departed soul, spirit, ghost,” and often represented symbolically as a butterfly or moth. The word had extensive sense development in Platonic philosophy and Jewish-influenced theological writing of St. Paul (cf. spirit (n.)). Meaning “human soul” is from 1650s. In English, psychological sense “mind,” is attested by 1910.

psych
as a noun, short for psychology in various senses (e.g. as an academic study, in student slang by 1895). As a verb, first attested 1917 as “to subject to psychoanalysis,” short for psychoanalyze. From 1934 as “to outsmart” (also psych out); from 1963 as “to unnerve.” However to psych (oneself) up is from 1972; to be psyched up is attested from 1968.

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psyche in Medicine Expand
psyche psy·che (sī’kē)
n.
The mind functioning as the center of thought, emotion, and behavior and consciously or unconsciously mediating the body’s responses to the social and physical environment.
Psyche [( seye -kee)]

In Roman mythology, a beautiful girl who was visited each night in the dark by Cupid, who told her she must not try to see him. When she did try, while he was asleep, she accidentally dropped oil from her lamp on him, and he awoke and fled. After she had performed many harsh tasks set by Cupid’s mother, Venus, Jupiter made her immortal, and she and Cupid were married. Her name is Greek for both “soul” and “butterfly.”

psyche [( seye -kee)]

The mind, soul, or spirit, as opposed to the body. In psychology, the psyche is the center of thought, feeling, and motivation, consciously and unconsciously directing the body’s reactions to its social and physical environment.

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My old dip pen made splotches

on my desk.

It wrote upon the page with leaks and spills

Freud would slip in quietly and with zest.

Before he asked for money for his bills

A splotch looks like King Boris with no throne

A splash looks like a cow stood all alone

A line of writing seems to be severe.

But as it’s yours I’ll love it well my dear

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I bit the cat because the cat bit me
Yet I was wrong for this will make him worse
Now I shall be tried for hurting fleas

A cat may bite from curiosity
I was wrong to swear and wildly curse
I bit the cat because the cat bit me

I forgot to buy the carrots and the peas.
Neither have I booked the cat a hearse
Oh, no I shall be tried for eating fleas

Learn my lesson, it is almost free
My cat has died and it will hit my purse
I bit the cat because the cat bit me

I have no cat to sit upon my knee
No longer will he linger by the hearth
I always thought that puss would outlive me

I feel I have destroyed my moral worth
No longer should I dwell on this sweet earth
I bit the cat because the cat bit me
Where’s my love and whose the victory?

Catastrophic grief can make us dumb

Into our hearts we drag the ice that numbs.

Yet ice can turn to water in the sun

Grief by loving warmth is overcome