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

Army’s attempts to harness psychic energy to kill the animals by glaring intently at them.

From Science Magazine

I really do believe that if you put enough love and psychic energy into a character, they do start to generate their own destiny.

From Los Angeles Times

At the very least, he writes, "it is imperative that we cease investing our psychic energy in the white bourgeoisie's culture war. It will never get better, and only makes us worse."

From Salon

They seemed to capture something primitive or dreamlike, Jungian archetypes and Freudian psychic energies, and inspired new ways to distort and reconfigure the human form.

From Washington Post

“Home holds a lot of psychic energy,” says the artist Woody De Othello, who’s not referring to the shelter-in-place orders of recent history or to his apartment in Oakland, Calif., but to the concept itself.

From New York Times