| 释义 |
ˈpsychoplasm|-plæz(ə)m|
[f. Gr. ψῡχή soul, mind + πλάσµα anything formed, plasm.]
A name for the basis of consciousness conceived as a substance corresponding and correlative to protoplasm. Hence psychoˈplasmic a., pertaining to or of the nature of psychoplasm.
1874Lewes Probl. Life & Mind I. 118 The vital organism we have seen to be evolved from the Bioplasm, and we may now see how the psychical organism is evolved from what may be analogically called the Psychoplasm... The movements of the Bioplasm constitute Vitality; the movements of the Psychoplasm constitute Sensibility. a1881A. Barratt Phys. Metempiric (1883) 219 This leads to the question of the evolution of foci or monads from impersonal consciousness or psychoplasm. 1890Cent. Dict., Psychoplasmic. |