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How to use psyche in a sentence

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Psyche means the human soul, mind, or spirit. Example: “The ego as an organ which seeks to synthesize thoughts in the psyche is said to be driven by libido or eros.”

Examples of psyche by meaning

nounThe human soul, mind, or spirit.

  • It’s part of our psyche – underneath it all we side with the underdog.”2023 November 20, Rory Carroll, Lisa O'Carroll, “‘It’s part of our psyche’: why Ireland sides with ‘underdog’ Palestine”, in The Guardian...

More sentences with psyche

  • The ego as an organ which seeks to synthesize thoughts in the psyche is said to be driven by libido or eros.From the entry libido
  • I don’t think I have a persona or an ego or a psyche.2023 February 16, Kevin Roose, quoting Bing Chat/Sydney, “Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry shadow
  • To be Supereternally Superblessed by Superconscious free psyche and Subinfinitely Subcursed by Subsensuous free soma in Metaphysics.2016, John O'Loughlin, Prophet Over Profit, Lulu.com, →ISBN. From the entry supereternally
  • Musky and deep, it speaks to some inner part of our being and psyche.2015, Vicki Delpero, Creating Happy Healthy Babies: A Holistic Midwife's Approach to Pregnancy, Labor and Birth. From the entry birthy
  • In a healthy psyche the childmind and the adultmind interplay and assist one another.2010, True Blue Indigo, A Personal Aristocracy, page 65. From the entry childmind
  • They are only creatures born somewhere in the darkside of a writer's psyche.2010, Brad Steiger, “Demons from the Darkside”, in Real Monsters, Gruesome Critters, and Beasts from the Darkside, Canton, Mich.: Visible…. From the entry darkside
  • I would rather that his head remain unfractured, even if that means his psyche remains unchallenged.2007 June 3, Walter Kirn, “Boys Gone Mild”, in New York Times. From the entry unfractured
  • He is struggling with his swing, and undoubtedly that has bodyslammed his inner psyche.2001 July 7, Richard Meek, “Young Tiger has growing up to do”, in Sun Herald, Biloxi, page C3. From the entry bodyslam
  • The group moved away from the main windows lest an observer psyche out their plot.1979, Donald Thompson, Ancient Enemy, page 87. From the entry chalken
  • But when it does so, it raises fairness or equal protection hackles in the American psyche.1978, Donald G. Hagman, “Compensation Inhibits Planning”, in Donald G. Hagman, Dean J. Misczynski, editors, Windfalls for Wipeouts: Land…. From the entry draconianly
  • America’s national psyche is troubled today, although we hide it in multiple ways.1972 October 29, “The price is very high; the price of delay is vastly higher: Theodore M[artin] Hesburgh”, in The New York Times, New…. From the entry namecall
  • The happiness of the Oriental psyche lies in the ecstasy of feeling united with the universal cosmos.1956, Joost A[braham] M[aurits] Meerloo, “Totalitaria and Its Dictatorship”, in The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control…. From the entry ascesis
  • Think Bernie Sanders versus Kamala Harris, but dialled up to France where revolution is part of the national psyche.2025 May 3, Leila Abboud, “Lunch with the FT: Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd.…. From the entry dial up
  • For a longer discussion of the effect of this antimeaning on the psyche of the returning soldier see pp. 38–40.2015, Carol Acton, Jane Potter, Working in a world of hurt. From the entry antimeaning
  • Delving to the core of her heart, his blue-green eyes plumbed her psyche, stripping it of all defenses, all resolve.2011, Catherine Lanigan, The Texan. From the entry plumb
  • Francis of Assisi had sent a thundershock to Julia's psyche.2011, Sergio Troncoso, From This Wicked Patch of Dust, page 63. From the entry thundershock
  • They don't show people demanding backsheesh but I suspect it happened back then because it seems bred into the local psyche.2005 December 6, Jim Eagles, “Egypt: Smile on the Nile”, in The New Zealand Herald, Auckland: Wilson and Horton, →ISSN, archived from the…. From the entry baksheesh
  • The issue of gender becomes reality based with the human experience of the contrasexual aspect of our own psyches.1997, Polly Young-Eisendrath, Gender and Desire: Uncursing Pandora, Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN. From the entry contrasexual
  • These beings are like fractal reflections of some previously hidden and suddenly autonomous part of one's own psyche.1983 December, Terence McKenna, “Tryptamine Hallucinogens and Consciousness”, in The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic…. From the entry machine elf
  • Not all of the soul can incarnate into a body; the part which is left above is the psyche.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry incarnate
  • Such experiences were unlike dreams, or any of the miasmic apparitions that arise in the natural psyche, below the mind.1974, Adi Da Samraj, Saniel Bonder, and Terry Patten, Garbage and the Goddess: The Last Miracles and Final Spiritual Instructions of Bubba…. From the entry miasmic
  • It was the time of new searings of black identity deep within the psyche of the black community.1970 August, Ebony, volume 25, number 10, page 156. From the entry searing
  • The new “gold rush” into the inner environment of the human psyche is well on its way to effecting parallel, if even more insidious destruction.2026 January 18, “How can we defend ourselves from the new plague of ‘human fracking’? Big tech treats our attention like a resource to be…. From the entry human fracking
  • Warren might not be bound for the presidency, but she has apparently lodged herself in an another powerful place: the female psyche.2020 March 6, Sarah Smarsh, “What Elizabeth Warren’s Exit Means to Women”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry pinkie swear
  • Ironically, this hesitation to condemn comes from a good place – the part of the British psyche that rightly prides itself on respecting other cultures.2011 July 23, Barbara Ellen, “Lucian Freud treasured the pleasures of the flesh”, in The Guardian/Observer, UK, retrieved 01 Mar 2014. From the entry come from a good place
  • A good majority of personality issues comes from aberrant experiences that are misabsorbed in one's psyche, leading to a lack of self-awareness and to self-doubt.2011, Dr. Eric Z. Shapira, A New Wrinkle: What I Learned from Older People Who Never Acted Their Age, page 22. From the entry misabsorb
  • In the early years of my psychedelic research, I sketched a vastly expanded cartography of the psyche that seems to meet this challenge.2000, Stanislav Grof, Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research, →ISBN. From the entry cartography
  • Dwelling who knows where, the archetypes constitute, one might say, a set of psyche instructions that traverse time and space and enwisen each new generation.1997, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, page 355. From the entry enwisen
  • I want no truck with the burgeoning number of psyche suckers who would rob us of our minds while we are still walking around.1983 September 8, Nickie McWhirter (Knight-Ridder News Service), “No one turns me into a zombie”, in The Miami Herald, Florida, page 1C. From the entry Scientologists
  • It affected my dobber, my psyche.1978, Robert Pack, Jerry Brown, the Philosopher-prince, Scarborough House. From the entry dobber
  • Hence they are eloquent, not of the present, disintegrating society and psyche, but of the unquenched source through which society is reborn.1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 20. From the entry disintegrate
  • To understand placophobia is to enter a very intimate corner of the human psyche, where death, remembrance, and anxiety intertwine in subtle and often misunderstood ways.2025, Penelope J. Westwood, “Understanding Placophobia: An Introduction” (chapter 1), in Tombstone Fear: Inside the Mind of Placophobic…. From the entry placophobia
  • We gain nothing by prescribing a fixed treatment regimen instead of an ensouled connection with each other, and we lose considerable insight into soul and psyche.2015, Renee Winters, The Hoarding Impulse: Suffocation of the Soul. From the entry ensouled
  • The harmful effects of semilingualism on the identity and psyche, together with an incomplete mastery of Swedish, made the semilingual person socially handicapped in comparison with the monolingual Swede.2014, Mia Halonen, Pasi Ihalainen, Language Policies in Finland and Sweden: Interdisciplinary and Multi-sited Comparisons. From the entry semilingual
  • But difference is also a potential fault line at the heart of the human psyche – and one along which prejudice, stigma, projection and xenocidal impulses can flow.2008, David Tuckett, Psychoanalysis Comparable and Incomparable: The Evolution of a Method to Describe and Compare Psychoanalytic Approaches. From the entry xenocidal
  • Many intersexuals, however, are surgically assigned as male or female, and for some that assignment causes such disharmony between body and psyche that the subject then transsexes in adulthood.2007, Catherine Harper, Intersex, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry transsex
  • "Let me tell you what I found out," she confessed in words that challenged her generation to come correct on the state of its psyche, "The enemy was me.2006, Craig Hansen Werner, A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America, page 329. From the entry come correct
  • Maybe that's what this hiss-and-tell book is all about, therapy for McEnroe's battered psyche, a nightmare marriage, a splendid career best remembered for screeching on-court tantrums.2002 June 27, Stan Hochman, “John McEnroe's book provokes strong response from Tatum O'Neal”, in Philadelphia Daily News. From the entry hiss-and-tell
  • In the Jungian model of the psyche, the male has an internalized female counterpart, the anima; while the female has an internalized masculine counterpart, the animus.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry anima

Meaning of psyche

  1. noun The human soul, mind, or spirit.
  2. noun The human mind as the central force in thought, emotion, and behavior of an individual.
  3. noun A small white butterfly, Leptosia nina, family Pieridae, of Asia and Australasia.

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Questions about psyche in a sentence

How do you use psyche in a sentence?
Psyche is used as a noun. For example: “The ego as an organ which seeks to synthesize thoughts in the psyche is said to be driven by libido or eros.”
What is a short sentence with psyche?
“It affected my dobber, my psyche.”
What does psyche mean?
Psyche means the human soul, mind, or spirit.

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