Sentence examples for a psychical from inspiring English sources

And I found the original documents of a psychical research society at Cambridge, the Ghost Club.

When the going got tough it was Kilmarnock who proved more adept at coping with the demands of a psychical encounter that was not for the squeamish.

This is a uniquely modern drama, and it is as much a psychical drama as a practical one, in which home is a place governed not by concepts of fairness but by willingness and desire.

Not so Gorky, who wrote: "Personally, I prefer to imagine man as a machine, which transmutes in itself so-called 'dead matter' into a psychical energy and will, in some far-away future, transform the whole world into a purely psychical one... Everything will disappear, being transmuted into pure thought, which alone will exist, incarnating the entire mind of humanity......

At the Educational Testing Service, "it was a cherished assumption that the S.A.T. was uncoachable," Nicholas Lemann writes in his history of the S.A.T., "The Big Test": The whole idea of psychometrics was that mental tests are a measurement of a psychical property of the brain, analogous to taking a blood sample.

There are two schools of thought, the professor stated, one holding that the weekend break in routine, accompanied by late hours and indulgence in alcohol, etc., produces a psychical letdown that carries over till Tuesday; the other that Monday doldrums are a state of mind caused by the vista of a tedious week ahead.

By thus reasserting the primacy of biological and social forces, however, Horney disputes precisely the idea that is central to Freud's hypothesis and that marks psychoanalysis as a unique field of inquiry, that of a distinctive psychical realm of representation that is unconscious.

In 1894, the British psychologist C. Lloyd Morgan established what came to be known as Morgan's canon: "In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale".

Morgan's Canon states: "In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale" (Morgan 1894, 53).

At the same time, to counteract the anthropomorphic bias in the double inductive method, Lloyd Morgan introduced a principle now known as Morgan's canon: "in no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale" (Lloyd Morgan 1894, p.53).

While this understanding of human nature dominated biblical thought, in apocalyptic literature (2nd century bce 2nd century ce) the term nefesh was viewed as a separable psychical entity with existence apart from the body.