Sentence examples for of psychical from inspiring English sources

A department of psychical research later was opened at the University of Utrecht under W.H.C. Tenhaeff.

Despite the meticulous and often Herculean efforts of the society, more than a century of psychical research has added nothing to the stock of human knowledge.

Sinclair, who produced 24 novels in the course of a prolific literary career, was an active feminist and an advocate of psychical research, including psychoanalysis.

The author exposes the difference between the remodelling of some existing models, the modelling of physical objects and the modelling of psychical, intentional objects.

The paneled glass enclosing us neither shattered with the gunfire of psychical mercenaries nor slid away to reveal a locked safe protecting a manila envelope whose contents itemized the dark heart of Nolan's character.

But Mr. McDonnell, who believed in the existence of psychical phenomena, died in 1980 and the McDonnell Foundation recently notified the laboratory that it would provide no more money.

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.

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.

Stumpf believes that Köhler's isomorphism thesis, which postulates the existence of an identity relation between the structural laws of the psychical world and that of the physical world, presupposes the theory of psychophysical parallelism, which Stumpf rejects as well.

First, as one of Lacan's three basic, essential registers, the Imaginary is an intrinsic, unavoidable dimension of the existences of speaking psychical subjects; just as an analysis cannot (and should not try to) rid the analysand of his/her unconscious, so too is it neither possible nor desirable to liquidate the illusions of this register.

But as a category of thought, evil is not a product of nature, psychical or physical or metaphysical; it is a product of consciousness.