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metapsychics, n. pl.|mɛtəˈsaɪkɪks|
[ad. F. métapsychique (C. Richet 1905, in Proc. Soc. Psychical Research XIX. 2), f. Pol. metapsychika (W. Lutosławski 1902, in Wykłady Jagiellońskie II), after metaphysics n. pl.]
A name applied to a science or study of certain phenomena which are ‘beyond the scheme of orthodox psychology’. Cf. parapsychology.
1905O. Lodge in L. I. Finch tr. Maxwell's Metapsychical Phenomena p. xi, To emphasise the fact that these occurrences are at present beyond the scheme of orthodox psychology..Professor Richet has suggested that they be styled ‘meta-psychical phenomena’, and that the nascent branch of science..be called for the present ‘Metapsychics’. 1922B. Miall tr. Maeterlinck's Gt. Secret xi. 249 The recent researches of Dr. W. Crawford which have made a sensation in the world of metapsychics. 1957Encycl. Brit. XXI. 245/1 A group of investigators..are not prepared to accept the explanation in terms of human survival and..therefore dislike the term spiritualism, preferring to employ some noncommittal term such as metapsychics or parapsychology.
Hence metaˈpsychism; metaˈpsychist, a student of metapsychics.
1922Glasgow Herald 27 Oct. 4 Modern spiritualism, under the term Metapsychism, is favourably viewed. 1922B. Miall tr. Maeterlinck's Gt. Secret xi. 216 Our occultists, who are now assuming the name of metapsychists. 1927Brit. Jrnl. Psychical Res. I. vii. 207 It was said that the English spiritualists did not understand the French metapsychists. 1928Daily Express 27 June 6/4 What a palpitating problem for the psychologists and the metapsychists! |