psychoid

English

Etymology

Borrowing from German Psychoid

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪkɔɪd/

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Noun

psychoid (plural psychoids)

1. An innate physical reaction to a psychological stimulus.
   • 1931, Mental hygiene - Volume 15, page 173:

     The close interaction between the psyche and the psychoid, and the fact that many actions are half psychic and half psychoid or psychic at one time and psychoid at another, lead him to the conclusion that the psyche is a specialization of the psychoid, just as the nervous system, the bearer of the psyche, is a specialize medium for the performance of certain of the functions of protoplasm.

   • 1966, Paul Feyerabend, Grover Maxwell, Mind, Matter, and Method, →ISBN:

     It will be convenient, however, to adopt the convention that psychoids can be spoken of as being at a place in physical space, even though they cannot occupy a region in the ordinary sense.

   • 2012, Richard Grossinger, Dark Pool of Light, Volume Two: Consciousness in Psychospiritual and Psychic Ranges, →ISBN, page 160:

     Forming a bridge between us and nature, psychoids are, in effect, imaginal personifications that ar also real; or perhaps they are the closest metaphor we can muster for the say in which the energy individuating in us, individuating in the cosmos at large, and individuating at other elemental frequencies gives rise to personae and psyches that are not human.

   • 2018, Ann Addison, Jung’s Psychoid Concept Contextualised, →ISBN:

     Accordingly, Driesch considered that the psychoid served to regulate action, and it did so by employing the faculties of the brain as a piano player uses a piano.

Adjective

psychoid (comparative more psychoid, superlative most psychoid)

1. Pertaining to or characteristic of psychoids; Involving the causal interaction between the psychological or instinctive and the physical.
   • 1998, Murray Stein, Jung's Map of the Soul: An Introduction, →ISBN:

     It is psychoid, and it extends into regions beyond human experience and knowing.

   • 2010, John Ryan Haule, Jung in the 21st Century Volume Two: Synchronicity and Science, →ISBN:

     While we may not blanch from claiming that every cell, every tissue and every organ is psychoid in that sense, it is probably the case that few of our contemporaries are willing to grant a psychoid nature to molecules, atoms and subatomic particles.

   • 2017, Jane Weldon, Platonic Jung And the Nature of Self, →ISBN:

     Because it is transcendent, it is psychoid, and the Self, which is the ultimate transcendent reality, must also be psychoid.