Meaning of psychoid | Babel Free

Definitions

An innate physical reaction to a psychological stimulus.

Examples

“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.”

“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⟳.”

“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.”

“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.”

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