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Definition of Psychical
Psychical

Of or pertaining to the human soul, or to the living principle in man.

Of or pertaining to the mind, or its functions and diseases; mental; -- contrasted with physical.

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Psychical Quotations

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

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

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

Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other.
Wilhelm Wundt

The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.
Wilhelm Wundt

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

Psychical Translations

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


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