psychic energy

American  

noun

Psychoanalysis.

1. according to Freud, the force that lies behind all mental processes, having its basic source as the id.

---

Etymology

Origin of psychic energy

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

Army’s attempts to harness psychic energy to kill the animals by glaring intently at them.

From Science Magazine

I really do believe that if you put enough love and psychic energy into a character, they do start to generate their own destiny.

From Los Angeles Times

They seemed to capture something primitive or dreamlike, Jungian archetypes and Freudian psychic energies, and inspired new ways to distort and reconfigure the human form.

From Washington Post

“Home holds a lot of psychic energy,” says the artist Woody De Othello, who’s not referring to the shelter-in-place orders of recent history or to his apartment in Oakland, Calif., but to the concept itself.

From New York Times

The mantra has freed her to play the best golf she’s capable of instead of expending all her physical and psychic energies on manufacturing success.

From New York Times