psychogenesisn.
/ˌsʌɪkəʊˈdʒɛnᵻsɪs/, U.S. /ˌsaɪkoʊˈdʒɛnəsəs/ 1. The origin or development of the soul, mind, character, etc.; the branch of knowledge or speculation concerned with this.
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the mind > mental capacity > spirituality > mind, soul, spirit, heart > origin of mind or soul > [noun]
psychogony1587
psychogenesis1838
psychogeny1874
psychogenetics1916
1838 Fraser's Mag. 17 27 Was there any tradition on the earth, below the earth, or above the earth, of the Psychogenesis?
1874 G. H. Lewes Probl. Life & Mind I. 226 Psychogenesis..teaches that Instinct is organized Experience, i.e. undiscursive Intelligence.
1895 E. B. Titchener tr. O. Külpe Outl. Psychol. 17 Assistance may be gained, further, from the study of psychogenesis... It forms an indispensable supplement to our knowledge of the developed consciousness.
1956 C. J. Herrick Evol. Human Nature xxiv. 299 Ranked in order of their complexity and probably also of the time of their appearance in psychogenesis, the following precursors and components of human cognition are commonly recognized.
1998 G. Bendelow & S. J. Williams Lived Body iii. 40 The psychogenesis of the adult personality cannot..be understood in isolation from the sociogenesis of our civilisation.
2. Biological origin or evolution regarded as being due to the activity of the soul or mind. Now historical.
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1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 526 This mode of origin may—as opposed to the hypothesis of natural selection—be fitly termed Psychogenesis.
1903 Mind 12 104 The terms..should be employed with the widest possible range of significance so as to comprise both the embryonic and the fully developed phases along a specific line of psychogenesis.
1930 E. J. Hatfield tr. E. Rádl Hist. Biol. Theories vi. 58 He himself [sc. Mivart] believed that an inner spiritual force was the cause of development; and he named his theory ‘Psychogenesis’.
3. The psychological origin or cause to which a given behaviour, condition, etc., may be attributed; the fact of having a psychological origin or cause (esp. as opposed to a physical one).
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness > psychic origin
psychogenesis1912
1912 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 23 319 Even the term ‘pseudo-homosexuality’ is of doubtful clinical value... Its introduction weakens the author's views concerning the psychogenesis of these sexual traits.
1920 S. Freud in Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-anal. 1 125 (heading) The psychogenesis of a case of female homosexuality.
1939 C. G. Jung in Jrnl. Mental Sci. 85 1002 Psychogenesis of schizophrenia..in the first place means the question: Can the primary symptom..be considered as an effect of the psychological conflicts and other disorders of an emotional nature or not?
1972 O. L. Zangwill in C. B. Cox & A. E. Dyson 20th-cent. Mind II. vii. 188 There was also greater tolerance for the deviants and eclectics, provided that they subscribed to the general idea of psychogenesis—i.e. the belief that neurosis has a psychological rather than a physical cause.
1991 L. Faderman Odd Girls & Twilight Lovers iii. 89 They traced the psychogenesis of those cases to an early excessive affection for the mother or the father.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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