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

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

Regarded from the point of view of knowledge, the formation of types reveals itself as a symbolic presentiment of an anagogic idea, not at first clearly conceivable.

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

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 Jelliffe, Smith Ely

As has been shown by two fairy tales and as I could have abundantly shown from countless others, the psychoanalytic and the anagogic interpretations are possible alongside of the scientific.

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

We find it, for instance, in the criticism of Virgil, to whose work were attributed four distinct meanings: literal, allegorical, moral, and anagogic.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto