psychic apparatus
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of psychic apparatus
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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Perhaps we shall now begin to suspect that dream interpretation is capable of giving us hints about the structure of our psychic apparatus which we have thus far expected in vain from philosophy.
From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Freud, Sigmund
We may only venture to say that pleasurable excitation in some way involves lessening, lowering or obliterating the amount of stimuli present in the psychic apparatus.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund
His psychic apparatus never failed in letting him know the proximity of an incarnate or discarnate being.
From Three More John Silence Stories by Blackwood, Algernon
Thinking is indeed nothing but the equivalent of the hallucinatory wish; and if the dream be called a wish-fulfillment this becomes self-evident, as nothing but a wish can impel our psychic apparatus to activity.
From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Freud, Sigmund
We may say that the psychic apparatus serves the purpose of mastering and bringing to rest the mass of stimuli and the stimulating forces which approach it.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund
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