单词 | metapsychics |
释义 | metapsychicsn. The study of phenomena which are beyond the scope of orthodox psychology. Cf. parapsychology n. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > spiritualism > [noun] ghostism1850 spiritualism1851 spiritism1856 psychomancy1865 metapsychics1905 metapsychism1922 1905 O. Lodge in L. I. Finch tr. J. Maxwell 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’. 1922 B. Miall tr. M. Maeterlinck Great Secret xi. 249 The recent researches of Dr. W. Crawford which have made a sensation in the world of metapsychics. 1957 Encycl. 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. 1989 Monumenta Nipponica 44 517 A crescendo of Jungian formulations, proposing a unitary path of ‘metapsychics’ that can reconcile traditional concepts of metaphysics and psychology. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1905 |
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