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Definition of Metapsychology
1. Noun. (psychology) The philosophical study of psychology and of the mind ¹
2. Noun. (psychology) A set of principles governing Freudian psychology ¹
3. Noun. (philosophy) Study of how human experience forms, filters perception and shapes identity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Metapsychology
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Medical Definition of Metapsychology
1. 1. A systematic attempt to discern and describe what lies beyond the empirical facts and laws of psychology, such as the relations between body and mind, or concerning the place of the mind in the universe. 2. In psychoanalysis, or psychoanalytic metapsychology, psychology concerning the fundamental assumptions of the freudian theory of the mind, which entail five points of view: 1) dynamic, concerning psychologic forces; 2) economic, concerning psychologic energy; 3) structural, concerning psychologic configurations; 4) genetic, concerning psychologic origins; 5) adaptive, concerning psychologic relations with the environment. Origin: G. Meta, beyond, transcending, + psychology (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metapsychology
Literary usage of Metapsychology
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Conceptions of Social Inquiry by J. J. Snyman (1993)
"Or, expressed in more contemporary terms, Husserl felt the need for a metapsychology
to provide psychology with a philosophic grounding. ..."
2. Problems in Dynamic Psychology: A Critique of Psychoanalysis and Suggested by John Thompson MacCurdy (1922)
"metapsychology is a new term he has coined for the viewing of mental phenomena
from three standpoints. The first is the topical, ie, ..."
3. The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1914)
"I know the objection which will be brought forward—that this reason has no great
value in the phenomenology of metapsychology where unconscious and ..."
4. Psychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms by Carl Gustav Jung (1916)
"However, such cosmic relations are primarily projections of metapsychology.
"Faust (II Part): The Scene of the mothers: The key belongs to Hecate, ..."
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