anagogic

American  

[an-uh-goj-ik] / ˌæn əˈgɒdʒ ɪk /

Also anagogical

adjective

1. of or relating to an anagoge.

2. Psychology. deriving from, pertaining to, or reflecting the moral or idealistic striving of the unconscious.

   anagogic image; anagogic interpretation.

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Other Word Forms

• anagogically
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of anagogic

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English word from Medieval Latin word anagogicus. See anagoge, -ic

Example Sentences

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anagogic

Quite as clear as the nature myth purport, is the fact that we have a representation of regeneration, which is quite as conceivable in psychoanalytic as in anagogic explanation.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe

There are, however, others than the religiously inspired natures, who are preëminently endowed to produce suggestive symbol groups with anagogic value; the artists.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe

To the most general type belong then, without doubt, those symbols or frequently disguised images, concerning which we wondered before, that besides representing “titanic” tendencies, they are fitted to represent the anagogic.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe

What I have already taken from the anagogic fairy tale interpretation as a symbol of introversion shows, of course, also the character of intro-determination.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe

The viewing of the exalted anagogic conception as a perspective vanishing point, makes allowance for the possible errors of superposition in the anagogic aspect of the elementary types.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe