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psychologize, v.|ps-, saɪˈkɒlədʒaɪz|
[f. psychology + -ize.]
1. intr. To study or treat of psychology; to theorize, speculate, or reason psychologically.
1830W. Jacobson Let. in J. F. Maurice Life F. D. Maurice (1884) I. ix. 111 Neither stay away rusticating and psychologizing, but come here and mind your books. 1836Blackw. Mag. XL. 255 note, When a man comes to bound the subjects of human enquiry, by showing how in nature the human mind does, and can become possessed of the matter of its knowledge, he is then..psychologizing. 1884W. James in Mind IX. 5 Why, since the feeling has no proper subjective name of its own, we should hesitate to psychologise about it as ‘the feeling of that relation’. 1967Listener 19 Jan. 91/2 ‘Let us please psychologize In this wise,’ Suggested Freud. 1974Sci. Amer. Aug. 115/1 The texts still like to simplify; generally we psychologize about the local event and regard the suffused experience as secondary.
2. trans. To analyse or describe psychologically.
1856Masson Ess., Milton's Youth 46 When, by psychologizing a man, it is supposed we can tell what course of life he is fit for. 1891F. M. Wilson Primer Browning 16 He is as interested in psychologising a Paris jeweller as a queen.
3. To render psychological.
[1811–31: implied in psychologization: see below.] 1940V. J. McGill in M. Farber Philos. Ess. 231 This work was a reaction against his earlier volume in which he [sc. Husserl] had attempted to psychologize arithmetic. 1957Listener 9 May 743/2 We have been led to psychologize (to use John Dewey's rather horrid word) and to humanize learning.
4. To subject to ‘psychical’ influence.
1877D. D. Home Lights & Shadows of Spiritualism v. 264 Dear old gullible souls who could be readily psychologized into believing that they were eating a piece of the moon in shape of ‘green cheese’. 1885A. P. Sinnett Karma II. 11 Quite unaware of the fact that he had been psychologized so as to wish this. 1886Atlantic Monthly Nov. 592/1 Is the non-concurrence of the obstinate juryman in a righteous verdict owing to an honest conviction, or has he been unconsciously psychologized by the lawyer who has the biggest fee in his pocket?
Hence psyˈchologizing vbl. n.; also attrib.; also psyˈchologized ppl. a.; psychologiˈzation, the action of making psychological.
1811–31Bentham Lang. Wks. 1843 VIII. 318/2 Spiritualization or psychologization, in so far as any name of any physical substance, operation, or quality [is applied] to any correspondent..psychological substance, operation, or quality. 1860Chr. Remembr. XL. 477 No doubt that psychologizing is dangerous. 1895W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 393, I never find myself actively taking up the soul, so to speak, and making it to do work in my psychologizing. 1922C. E. M. Joad Common-Sense Theol. v. 233 The so-called ‘psychologising’ tendency in modern thought. 1956E. H. Hutten Lang. Mod. Physics vi. 224 We are once more in danger of falling victims to the psychologizing attitude of epistemology. 1961E. Nagel Structure of Science iii. 45 Various psychologized versions of the Aristotelian requirement have enjoyed wide currency. 1966J. J. Katz Philos. Lang. v. 261 This argument is a psychologization of an argument of Goodman's in some recent work of his on the concept of confirmation in science. 1970A. Toffler Future Shock (1974) x. 221 The key to the post-service economy lies in the psychologization of all production. 1976Spare Rib Oct. 38/4 A continuous stream of psychologising and explaining..leaves a reader little room to breathe or get curious about the characters. |