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metapsychology|mɛtəsaɪˈkɒlədʒɪ|
[f. meta- 1 + psychology.]
A name given to speculative inquiry regarding the ultimate nature of the mind and its functions which cannot be studied experimentally.
1909in Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1914A. A. Brill tr. Freud's Psychopathol. Everyday Life 309 We venture to explain in this way the myths of paradise and the fall of man, of God, of good and evil, of immortality and the like—that is, to transform metaphysics into meta-psychology. 1946J. H. Masserman Princ. Dynamic Psychiatry 285/1 Metapsychology, a psychological theory that cannot be verified or disproved by observation or reasoning. 1970Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. LXXXIII. 71 Those who like to conceptualize their data from the point of view of psycho-analytic metapsychology. 1970H. F. Ellenberger Discovery of Unconscious x. 754 He [sc. L. Daudet] also wrote nonfiction about daydreams and human personality, notably on the ego and the Self, and he called his own psychological system a metapsychology. |