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ˈpsychograph
[f. as prec. + -graph.]
1. A photographic image attributed to a supernatural or spiritualistic cause.
1882‘M. A. Oxon.’ Psychography (ed. 2) 11 The book is illustrated by thirty fac-similes of Psychographs thus obtained. Ibid. 12 He..obtained his..Psychographs by the simple process of putting blank paper on the table of his room. 1920London Mag. July 443/1 Most puzzling of all forms of super-normal pictures is the psychograph—so-called because it is assumed to be psychic in its origin and production. 1939H. Price Fifty Yrs. Psychical Res. i. 35 If a message in writing or a drawing spontaneously appears on a photographic plate, with or without it being exposed in the camera it is known as a scotograph or a psychograph. 1973D. A. Spencer Focal Dict. Photogr. Technologies 496 All available evidence suggests that these psychographs were fakes or the result of a combination of chemical fog and wishful thinking.
2. = psychogram 2.
1909Q. Rev. Oct. 500 This is no caricature, but almost a psychograph of the spirit which permeates many if not most of the descriptive reports of cricket matches in popular sporting papers. 1921Education XLI. 513 A character psychograph of the individual is obtained. 1932C. Landis in K. S. Lashley Stud. in Dynamics of Behav. 299 In order to visualize more clearly the results of the tests, three psychographs were drawn to represent the performance of each subject.
3. = psychobiography a.
1932Sunday Times 6 Mar. 8/2 It was with some anxiety I saw Dame Una Pope-Hennessy was committed to writing a psychograph of Walter Scott. 1961Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Sept. 637/2 Professor Edward Wagenknecht has been driven to compose a ‘psychograph’, in which he competently balances opinion against opinion in the hope of discovering what Hawthorne was really like. 1967Amer. N. & Q. Sept. 14/2 Forrest, first of the American tragic actors in this assemblage of ‘psychographs’. 1974Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Oct. 1130/3 Dickens was the principal exemplar, and Wilson's penetrating psychograph, ‘The Two Scrooges’, coincided with George Orwell's revaluation in focusing upon a great novelist whose very popularity had caused him to be critically neglected. |