psyche
sahy kee
- n that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason
- n the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life
- n (Greek mythology) a beautiful princess loved by Cupid who visited her at night and told her she must not try to see him; became the personification of the soul
- I started doing some research, and it can impact the psyche from a very early age.
- But on one thing the contending parties agree: for good or ill, Sigmund Freud, more than any other explorer of the psyche, has shaped the mind of the 20th century.
- A decade after her death, Princess Diana still looms large in Britain's psyche.