How To Use Psychical In A Sentence
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They employ the term psychical to indicate the relation of the human soul to sense, appetite, propensity, etc., and psychological, as indicating the ultimates of spiritual being.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
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Some of these changes are beyond restitution; some can be brought back to a well-working structure by strictly physical agencies like drugs or electricity; others can be repaired by physiological stimuli which reach directly the higher brain cells through the sense organs and which we call psychical under one aspect, but which certainly remain physiological influences from another aspect.
Psychotherapy
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I want to propose that the manifest obscurities within German Romantic psychical theory, its resistance to straightforward conceptualisation and its signal difficulties in formulating a coherent theory of the individual soul, are both a significant issue for the history of modern psychology and more than an accidental by-product of Romantic confusion.
Psychology in Search of Psyches: Friedrich Schelling, Gotthilf Schubert and the Obscurities of the Romantic Soul
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Would ye ken a young stepschuler of psychical chirography, the name of Keven, or (let outers pray) Evan Vaughan, of his Posthorn in the High Street, that was shooing a Guiney gagag, Poulepinter, that found the dogumen number one, I would suggest, an illegible downfumbed by an unelgible? —
Finnegans Wake
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This tendency – which might be called a type of impersonation, a kind of camouflaging of the writer's authority and hence his responsibility – can be seen throughout Ishiguro's work, and goes hand in hand with his most persistent themes: the fear of disorganisation and abandonment; the psychical aftermath of childhood; and the relationship between the institutional and the personal through which these themes are frequently dramatised.
Rereading: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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The psychical match to the quintessential individuality of the Lensman was exact-so perfect, in fact, that it released latent parapsychic or psi powers, telepathy in particular.
The Dragon Lensman
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Much attention should be paid to psychical rehabilitation in the course of treatment.
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One can say that this (over -) emphasis stems from her identity as a writer, where literature would play a more decisive role than usual in psychical and material realities, but it should not be reduced to this fact.
Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality
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And when I ask my students or any group, ` Have you ever had a psychical experience, 'no matter how educated, no matter how intellectual and -- the overwhelming answer is, ` Yes, I've had an experience that I would call a psychical experience.'
Genuine Reality: A Life of William James
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59 If the psychical pneuma is too cold, Publicius adds, it cannot cross over to the posterior ventricle, thus rendering the memory "dull and languid.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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As he put it, 'the main body of the collective unconscious cannot be strictly said to be psychological, but psychical'.
Times, Sunday Times
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Valentine announced the distinction between a psychical and pneumatical Christianity.
The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.
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The ordinary Englishman is not a great believer in devils or spirits of evil: though he does in some instances believe in ghosts, and is inclined to the practice of what in former ages was called necromancy -- the attempt to establish an illicit connexion with the spirits of the departed -- under the modern name of psychical research.
Religious Reality
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In this manner we use the word psychical as describing the relationship of the soul to animal experiences and being, and psychological as referring to the spiritual potencies of the soul.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
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Auras can be seen physically, or sensed psychically, or both.
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The fact that his educational opportunities expanded as a result of the same event that psychically eviscerated his father is compelling, but the theme is dropped.
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I was still banging about the room, then, and I said that I had finished with psychical research, that never again would I make the least inquiry with regard to a possible future life, or any kind of spiritualistic phenomenon.
The Psychical Researcher's Tale - The Sceptical Poltergeist From "The New Decameron", Volume III.
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It should be noted, however, that the Valentinian, Ptolemy, ascribes freedom of will to the psychic (which the pneumatic and hylic lack), and therefore has sketched by way of by-work a theology for the psychical beside that for the pneumatic, which exhibits striking harmonies with the exoteric system of Origen.
History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
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Savages begin with fetisism and demon-worship, they proceed to physiolatry (the religion of the Vedas) and Sabaeism: the deity is the last and highest pinnacle of the spiritual temple, not placed there except by a comparatively civilised race of high development, which leads them to study and speculate upon cosmical and psychical themes.
First footsteps in East Africa
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In the primary processes of the unconscious system, psychical energy flows freely by means of displacement and condensation.
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Though this phraseology is mine, knowledge of a similar sort is included in Archie's abstractions about motion, and has its psychical equivalent in his views about poetry and his own poetics.
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Prevailing orthodoxy is that children are psychically frail creatures who require constant protection to cope with life's vicissitudes.
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A profound psychical revolution might erupt from this experience of the pregnant female as priest.
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impedimenta" thus bring to the race that has them a wealth of life both physical and psychical, practical and ideal, that is otherwise unattainable.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
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Indeed, it requires a ‘great expense of time and cathectic energy’ during which ‘the existence of the lost object is psychically prolonged.’
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Jesi was to act as a lookout for us, since he assumed she was the least psychically able of all of us.
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Thus, in Freud's energetic representation of the nervous-system there are two economies that impart psychical excitation.
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All nature -- its most comprehensive cosmic realms as well as the realms of its smallest organisms -- together with the corporeal, psychical, and spiritual nature of man, shows a _harmony_, a _conformity to the end in view_, and a _striving toward an end_ of its development, the denial of which will certainly not add to the laurels which transmit the scientific fame of our present generation to posterity.
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
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But essentially only those external manifestations can be considered that refer back to definite psychical conditions, so that our phenomenology may be defined as the semiotic of normal psychology.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
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To make a profession out of psychical research was hardly possible, even though by the 1880s there were career structures in more-established sciences.
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The lower story, the psychical, was created or furnished by the Demiurge, or sub-divine creator of the natural system, while the top-story, or pneumatical self, was a
Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries
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The Society for Psychical Research is investigating reports of a ghost at the old vicarage.
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And this means that the theories of universally acting psychical repression, of the unconscious, of the endopsychic censor, of the significance of resistance and amnesia, of the employment of highly complicated and phantastic symbolism, of the manifestations of sexuality and so forth have been made use of in a high-handed, uncalled for, unnecessary and unscientific manner to prove the truth of the thesis with which the author set out upon his journey.
The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
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Many of the insanities start in this fashion; and all such practices, instead of being encouraged, should be discouraged; and all experienced and intelligent students of psychical research warn those who "dabble" in the subject against the repeated and promiscuous indulgence in such practices -- because of the dangerous, even disastrous, effects upon the mind, in many instances.
The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
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he was psychically blind
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Footnote 4: In the use of the terms psychical and psychological, we have observed the distinction which metaphysicians have recently made.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
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Attempts have been made by various groups to work with trained sensitives in the presence of a crystal skull and record the impressions that they psychically receive.
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Such things never appear to bother Albert, the consummate technician, who dissociates himself psychically from the violent, barbarous act.
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Though this tale of reincarnation and a love that crossed generations starred the peerless Barbara Harris, as a psychically gifted young woman with a past life just waiting to leap out of her, it was generally agreed that the 1965 production was overdressed, overplotted and more or less out of its mind.
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This tendency – which might be called a type of impersonation, a kind of camouflaging of the writer's authority and hence his responsibility – can be seen throughout Ishiguro's work, and goes hand in hand with his most persistent themes: the fear of disorganisation and abandonment; the psychical aftermath of childhood; and the relationship between the institutional and the personal through which these themes are frequently dramatised.
Rereading: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Thus it is possible to speak of physical parenthood and of psychical parenthood, and thus not only to avoid the term reproduction, but to get better value out of its substitutes.
Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
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This is the one insight into psychical reality that Frankenstein ascribes to a female character.
Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality
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The application of plethysmography to the objective study of so-called extrasensory perception, Journal of the Society for PsychicalResearch, 40, 162-172.
ENTANGLED MINDS
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It is rather in what we call psychical vision that the poet is wont to excel, that is, in his ability to perceive the meaning of visual phenomena.
A Study of Poetry
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In advising balneotherapeutic treatment in any case, all the conditions and habits of the patient -- pecuniary, physical and psychical -- must be considered, as the spa must be fitted to the patient, not the patient to the spa.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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After serving in the Royal Navy in India, he went into business in Cambridge, with psychical research as his main sideline.
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In his thought, a deep cleavage runs through the human race and divides it into two sharply-sundered classes, "psychical men" and "pneumatical men" -- men who live according to nature, and men who live by the life of the Spirit.
Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries
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It is the realm of _psychical life_; and, still more decidedly and more evidently, the _realm of mind_.
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
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I see here another case of a combined psychical (partial) operation of a "mediumistic" kind; and this hypothesis makes very plausible the other no less impressive hypothesis of the observer that his mind was reading (in a subconscious way) the mind of the horse.
Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals
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Long before the word “parapsychology” came into use, something called psychical research investigated communication between living human beings and departed spirits—usually, but not always, their friends or loved ones.
The Angels and Us
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Meanwhile it is referred to only because its consideration shows us some sort of excuse, if not warrant, for the higher education of woman, even though in the process of thus endowing her with economic independence, we disendow her of her distinctive womanhood, or at the very least imperil it; even though, more serious still, we deprive the race of her services as physical and psychical mother.
Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
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Attention also requires a _preparation_ of the ideative centers in relation to the external object for which it is to be demanded: in other words, an internal, psychical "adaptation.
Spontaneous Activity in Education
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By and large, psychical researchers failed to convince the majority of the scientific and academic worlds of the existence of telepathy.
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When we apply ourselves to seeking something with memory, this pineal gland is opened to provide access to the animate spirit psychical pneuma from the anterior to the posterior ventricle.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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The precise formulation is instructive for the ways that it connects the issue of un/mourning to the place of literature in psychical reality.
Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality
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Later Miss Lord became deeply interested in psychical researches, and I could get no more work out of her.
Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
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Amaiya had to psychically leap out of the way to avoid the ship careening into her.
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In the psychical world that quality which we call spirituality may be associated with and evoked by Theism, or the belief in a Divine
The Essentials of Spirituality
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For only when the psychical pneuma is serene, lucid, and clear does it cross over to the posterior ventricle (Publicius, Art of Memory, 28).
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Railways, psychical research, and the combing of graveyards were other enthusiasms.
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Conclusion: The Liuhe - lottery does harm to people, s psychical health and should be for bidden.
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But, on the other hand, in fully adopting the old scholastic creationism, he supposes a special creation of the _soul_, a separation of body and soul, which in this form is very contestable, and might better have been replaced by a separation of natural and rational or of physico-psychical and pneumatical parts of his being.
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality