Definition of psyche
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:a princess loved by Cupid
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some hidden corner within your psyche
disturbing, enigmatic paintings that seem to embody the psyche of this brilliant but troubled artist
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Beyond that, the emotional and academic impacts of the natural disaster could plague students’ psyches and school successes for years to come.
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This is a fascinating and newly emerging subfield within psychology, which looks at the effects of natural disasters on both our individual and collective psyches.
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Defense attorney Lionel Lon Burns contended that his client's documented history of mental illness -- including two stays in mental hospitals in the previous year -- sufficiently demonstrated Thornton's fragile psyche.
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Hack into his psyche (and get a second-hand Christian Slater sighting rush) below.
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Novelists often offer deep insights into the human psyche that take psychologists years to test.
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For Beaty, one small phrase was part of a bigger goal when trying to rebuild his team’s psyche.
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Fate gave Tchaikovsky an extremely fine psyche and incredible sensitivity.
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Harrison is probably the star player here, as Travis’s psyche provides the basis for most of the film’s horror.
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Did You Know?
Sometime back in the 16th century, we borrowed the word psyche directly from Greek into English. In Greek mythology, Psyche was a beautiful princess who fell in love with Eros (Cupid), god of love, and went through terrible trials before being allowed to marry him. The story is often understood to be about the soul redeeming itself through love. (To the Greeks, psyche also meant "butterfly", which suggests how they imagined the soul.) In English, psyche often sounds less spiritual than soul, less intellectual than mind, and more private than personality.
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Medical Dictionary
medical Definition of psyche
:the specialized cognitive, conative, and affective aspects of a psychosomatic unity :mind;
specifically
:the totality of the id, ego, and superego including both conscious and unconscious components
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