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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

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I love the image; just think about the clouds of psychic energy and all these people all over the city talking about Lorne and the show, trying to figure it out.

From Salon Jul. 5, 2026

We’ll have robot cars, robocops, terminators and a fully functioning Skynet that grades social status from Instagram likes—unless we’re all entombed Matrix-like in pods wearing Neurolinks to capture our psychic energy.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 22, 2026

Rather, it’s that I’ve decided that this time around, I will not exert my own psychic energy toward wondering what is bothering him and mistaking that for anything meaningful.

From Slate Feb. 9, 2025

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

From Science Magazine Dec. 7, 2023

Having named his organization after the anahata chakra—the "psychic energy center of love"—he initially distributed WOOF! to the fifty Anahatans.

From Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult by Laxer, Mark Eliot

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