psyche

Definition of psyche in English English dictionary: name of a girl loved by Cupid (or Eros); Psychidae, or Bagworms, a family of Lepidoptera; A code name for Red Hat Linux 8.0; In late Greek art and literature, a goddess who is the personification of the soul; she is primarily known for her role in the story of Cupid and Psyche, best attested in Apuleius' novel The Golden Ass; 16 Psyche, an asteroid; A Gothic band; An album by British band Ant and Dec; To intimidate (someone) emotionally using psychology; To put (someone) into a required psychological frame of mind; The human mind as the central force in thought, emotion, and behavior of an individual; To treat (someone) using psychoanalysis; Used abruptly after a sentence to indicate that the speaker is only joking; The human soul, mind, or spirit; psychology; In late Greek art and literature, a goddess who is the personification of the soul; she is primarily known for her role in the story of Cupid and Psyche, best attested in Apuleius novel The Golden Ass; In psychology and related fields, the psyche is the entirety of the non-physical aspects of a person; {i} (Greek Mythology) princess bride of the god Eros; name of a Canadian Gothic music band; {f} understand the mind of a person (Slang); In psychology, your psyche is your mind and your deepest feelings and attitudes. His exploration of the myth brings insight into the American psyche. Variant of psych. someone's mind, or their deepest feelings, which control their attitudes and behaviour. In Greek and Roman mythology, a beautiful princess who won Cupid's love. Her beauty was such that worshipers began to turn away from Venus, and the envious goddess commanded her son Cupid to make Psyche fall in love with the most despicable of men. But Cupid himself fell in love with Psyche and hid her in a remote place, where he visited her secretly under cover of darkness. One night she lit a lamp and discovered her lover's identity. He left angrily, and Psyche wandered the earth searching for him and was captured by Venus. After Cupid rescued Psyche, Jupiter made her immortal and gave her in marriage to Cupid; She is regarded as the personification of the soul; (A beautiful woman of ancient mythology loved by Cupid) Greek for "soul" or the "mind" (Instructor's note: In modern psychology, the psyche is taken to be an aggregate of the constituent parts that make up our "selves": a more complex mental organism than was envisioned by the Greeks); The Soul or the Mind The principle of animation From Greek psychein to breathe, blow James Hillman defines soul as a "perspective rather than a substance; a viewpoint toward things rather than the thing itself" "an inner place or deeper person or ongoing presence -- that is simply there even when all our subjectivity, ego, and consciousness go into eclipse " And, "that unknown component which makes meaning possible " The specific sense in psychology of the mind as the center of thought, emotions, and behavior, is first recorded in 1910, in C G Jung's writings See anima; A lovely maiden, daughter of a king and mistress of Eros, or Cupid; (sy-ki) -- from Greek for breath, hence soul, spirit, mind, especially as distinguished from the body Psyche was personified by the "ancient" Greeks as a Goddess, beloved of Eros (in Latin, Cupid); that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason; "his mind wandered"; "I couldn't get his words out of my head"; The soul; the vital principle; the mind; (Greek mythology) a beautiful princess loved by Cupid who visited her at night and told her she must not try to see him; became the personification of the soul; {i} mind of a person; soul, spirit; soul; self; mind; STC, Note to Psyche: Psyche means both Butterfly and Soul; The bridge between ego and soul The mirror in which impulses coming from the soul (or Permanent Witness) and the experiences and memories of the ego meet The psyche can only be purified when the antahkarana has been activated correctly; the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life; a spiritual/imaginal/somatic spectrum; a system that can't be studied by dividing into parts like instincts and drives It is also autonomous and not reducible to simpler systems A psychic fact only makes sense when we see its position in the whole that influences it; A cheval glass; The anticipate correctly the intentions or actions of
Psyche knot: A Grecian knot
Why, really, he drove all the ladies to wearing those odious Psyche knots.
Psyche knots: plural form of Psyche knot
psych: To intimidate (someone) emotionally using psychology
psych: To put (someone) into a required psychological frame of mind
psych: psychology
psych: psychiatric
the psych ward.
psych: To treat (someone) using psychoanalysis
psych: psych out to do or say things that will make your opponent in a game or competition feel nervous or confused, so that it is easier for you to win psych up if you psych yourself up or if someone psychs you up, you get mentally prepared before doing something so that you feel confident psych yourself up (for sth)
psyches: plural of psyche

psyche

Turkish pronunciation

sayki

Synonyms

anima, animus, character, ego, élan vital, essential nature, individuality, inner child, inner self, mind, pneuma, self, soul, spirit, spirituality

Antonyms

body, physicality

Pronunciation

/ˈsīkē/ /ˈsaɪkiː/

Etymology

(transitive verb.) 1917. From Latin psychē Ancient Greek ψυχή (psyche, “soul, breath”)

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