psychoid

plural psychoids

1. An innate physical reaction to a psychological stimulus.

   Accordingly, Driesch considered that the psychoid served to regulate action, and it did so by employing the faculties of the brain as a piano player uses a piano.

   2018, Ann Addison, Jung’s Psychoid Concept Contextualised, →ISBN

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   The close interaction between the psyche and the psychoid, and the fact that many actions are half psychic and half psychoid or psychic at one time and psychoid at another, lead him to the conclusion that the psyche is a specialization of the psychoid, just as the nervous system, the bearer of the psyche, is a specialize medium for the performance of certain of the functions of protoplasm.

   1931, Mental hygiene - Volume 15, page 173

   It will be convenient, however, to adopt the convention that psychoids can be spoken of as being at a place in physical space, even though they cannot occupy a region in the ordinary sense.

   1966, Paul Feyerabend, Grover Maxwell, Mind, Matter, and Method, →ISBN

   Forming a bridge between us and nature, psychoids are, in effect, imaginal personifications that ar also real; or perhaps they are the closest metaphor we can muster for the say in which the energy individuating in us, individuating in the cosmos at large, and individuating at other elemental frequencies gives rise to personae and psyches that are not human.

   2012, Richard Grossinger, Dark Pool of Light, Volume Two: Consciousness in Psychospiritual and Psychic Ranges, →ISBN, page 160

comparative more psychoid · superlative most psychoid

1. Pertaining to or characteristic of psychoids; Involving the causal interaction between the psychological or instinctive and the physical.

   It is psychoid, and it extends into regions beyond human experience and knowing.

   1998, Murray Stein, Jung's Map of the Soul: An Introduction, →ISBN

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   While we may not blanch from claiming that every cell, every tissue and every organ is psychoid in that sense, it is probably the case that few of our contemporaries are willing to grant a psychoid nature to molecules, atoms and subatomic particles.

   2010, John Ryan Haule, Jung in the 21st Century Volume Two: Synchronicity and Science, →ISBN

   Because it is transcendent, it is psychoid, and the Self, which is the ultimate transcendent reality, must also be psychoid.

   2017, Jane Weldon, Platonic Jung And the Nature of Self, →ISBN