| 释义 |
psychopomp|ps-, ˈsaɪkəʊpɒmp|
Also ˈpsychopompos.
[ad. Gr. ψῡχοποµπός, f. ψῡχή soul + ποµπός conductor, guide.]
A conductor of souls to the place of the dead. Also, the spiritual guide of a (living) person's soul; a person who acts as a guide of the soul.
In Greek, a name applied to Charon; more commonly to Hermes, the Anubis of Egypt, and to Apollo (Plut. 2. 758 B).
1863W. K. Kelly Curios. Indo-Europ. Trad. & Folk Lore 111 The other Aryan psychopomp, the cow. 1879M. D. Conway Demonol. I. ii. v. 129 The appearance of mice prognosticated of old the appearance of the præter⁓natural rat-catcher and psychopomp. 1920Webster, Psycho-pomp.., psycho-pompos. 1941Auden New Year Let. i. 27 For though the Janus of a joke The candid psychopompos spoke. 1946Antiquity XX. 168 Hermes psychopompos, the mediator between the upper and the nether world. 1951K. W. Bash tr. Jacobi's Psychol. C. G. Jung (ed. 5) iii. 135 It is therefore ‘an important function of the higher..super-personal animus that it guides and accompanies as a true Psycho⁓pompos the wanderings and transformations of the soul’. 1958L. Durrell Balthazar vi. 144 If I had been in your shoes and the whole damn thing wasn't just a lie to make yourself more interesting to the psychopomps—I'd.. well, I'd bloody well try and sleep with him again. 1965M. Bradbury Stepping Westward vii. 336 He's a psychopomp, that's what he calls himself. You know that word? I think he gets it from Jung. A soul-saver, or something. A man who leads the spirit onward. 1971Southerly XXXI. 12 The concept of the nymphet as psychopomp seems..a grotesque travesty of the Beatrice myth.
Hence (rare) psychoˈpompal, psychoˈpompous adjs., of or pertaining to a psychopomp; psychoˈpompically adv.
1855Bailey Mystic, etc. 8 The god of psychopompous function, round Circling the sun with fourfold force. 1885Stewart 'Twixt Ben Nevis & Glencoe xxxix. 291 The psychopompal vehicle, the ‘fiery chariot’ in which the spirit was conveyed. 1908R. Brooke Lett. (1968) 121, I, Hermes-like, am coming to fetch you psychopompically to Hell. |