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psychogony|-ˈɒgənɪ|
[ad. Gr. ψῡχογονία generation of the soul, f. ψῡχο- psycho- + -γονία begetting, generating.]
= psychogenesis 1. So psychoˈgonic [ad. Gr. ψῡχογονικ-ός], psychoˈgonical adjs., of or pertaining to psychogony.
[1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. 214 Plutarch.., in his Timæan psychogonia,..does at large industriously maintain the same.] 1874Sidgwick Meth. Ethics (1877) 185 The psychogonical question of their origin, and the ethical question of their validity. 1886Athenæum 21 Aug. 235/3 It deals rather with psychogony, or how mind came to be what it is, than with psychology, or the description of mind as it is. |