psychic energy

American  

noun

Psychoanalysis.

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

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Etymology

Origin of psychic energy

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

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

I think she found a lot of energy in Roethke’s organic psychic energy.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 20, 2019

Rama typically conducted business between two and four a.m. because "the world's psychic energy was calm" and, perhaps, because disciples at that time tended to be tired and off balance.

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