psychic energy

noun

, Psychoanalysis.

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of psychic energy¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

The explanation is as follows: I possess, let us say, 100 units of psychic energy which I might use in attention.

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How the crystal, magic-mirror, etc., serves to focus the psychic energy of the clairvoyant person.

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For a moment I gathered all my psychic energy and concentrated on the single crucial problem of stopping that leak.

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In a neurosis psychic energy is undoubtedly present, but in an inferior and not realisable form.

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Psychic energy is indeed a fastidious thing, that insists upon having its own conditions fulfilled.

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