psychic apparatus

[ sahy-kik ap-uh-rat-uhs, -rey-tuhs ]
nounPsychoanalysis.

  1. the mind considered as a collection of structures and mechanisms, such as ego, superego, and id.

Origin of psychic apparatus

1
First recorded in 1900–05

Words Nearby psychic apparatus

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How to use psychic apparatus in a sentence

  • His psychic apparatus never failed in letting him know the proximity of an incarnate or discarnate being.

    Day and Night Stories | Algernon Blackwood

  • If we now follow our scheme of the psychic apparatus, we can localize a wish of the first order in the system Forec.

    Dream Psychology | Sigmund Freud

  • Thus far we have elaborated the plan of the psychic apparatus; these two systems are the germ of the Unc.

    Dream Psychology | Sigmund Freud

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