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psyche

psyche

108 7.5
The part of a person that controls their thoughts and feelings
  • noun
  • /ˈsaɪki/
translation icon : psique
  • The therapist helped him explore the depths of his psyche to understand his feelings better.
  • the human psyche
  • the collective psyche
  • body and psyche

I mean, a journey into your brain and your psyche that is fascinating.

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Examples

  • There is a brokenness in the American psyche that we can.

  • But in the final days of his life, he revealed an unknown side of his psyche.

  • We take them into the psyche by sitting with them.

  • And something in my psyche just went click, click, click, click.

  • I mean that, that just what that does to your own psyche, to your own sense of yourself.

  • I mean, a journey into your brain and your psyche that is fascinating.

  • Psychology means the study of the human psyche or mind, right?

  • And that feeds into the public psyche, of what they think.

  • And whatever is unresolved within your own psyche is going to be seen.

  • Several such transcendent aspects of the psyche have been described in both Eastern and Western psychologies.

    Academic text (1990)

Synonyms

mind
vspsyche
1.6

The part of a person that thinks, feels, and remembers

includes broader spiritual and emotional centre beyond mere mental functions
soul
vspsyche
3.7

A part of a person that is not the body and that many believe lives after death

is the inner centre of thought and feeling rather than only an immortal essence

Surface Forms

psyche singular
psyches plural

Etymology

The word psyche comes from an old Greek word that meant 'soul' or 'breath'. It is the same root as psychology, which studies the mind, so psyche now means the center of a person's thoughts and feelings.