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

This point appears to me to be introversion, first because it is related to the previously mentioned intro-determination, and second, because it is familiar to psychoanalysis and is of great importance in anagogic method.

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

Kawa Kendi, a man in early middle age, powerful and lithe-limbed, sat as motionless as the King, his father, staring, as did all, with the fixed stare of the anagogic.

From Witch-Doctors by Beadle, Charles

And as a matter of fact the more developed forms permit a very much richer anagogic interpretation than the archaic.

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

If we wish to contrast their titanic with their anagogic aspect, we get approximately the following scheme, to which I add the familiar astrological characters of the seven planets.

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

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 Jelliffe, Smith Ely