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Definition of Psychical

Psychical

  1. Of or pertaining to the human soul, or to the living principle in man.
  2. Of or pertaining to the mind, or its functions and diseases; mental; -- contrasted with physical.

Psychical Quotations

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
Sigmund Freud

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.
Sigmund Freud

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
David Herbert Lawrence

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.
Dan Aykroyd

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
Samuel Alexander
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Psychical Translations

psychical in German is Parapsychologie, psychisch
psychical in Swedish is psykisk

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