单词 | psychogony |
释义 | psychogonyn. Chiefly Philosophy. Originally: the origin of the soul; †a treatise dealing with this (obsolete). Later also: = psychogenesis n. 1.In quot. 1737: = psychogonic cube n. at psychogonic adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > spirituality > mind, soul, spirit, heart > origin of mind or soul > [noun] psychogony1587 psychogenesis1838 psychogeny1874 psychogenetics1916 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. ix. 153 (side-note) Plutark in his Psychogonie [Fr. Psychogonie]. 1737 J. Ozell tr. F. Rabelais Wks. V. xxxvi. 156 Add..the first Cube, that's eight; at the End of that fatal Number you'll find the Temple-Gate; and pray observe, this is the true Psychogony of Plato [Fr. la vraye Psycogonie de Platon]..one Moiety of which consists of the Unity of the two first Numbers full of two Square and two Cubic numbers. 1801 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) II. 681 It is certain, it was a question of Psychogony not Psychology; the Soul, whatever it was, could only derive it's thought for itself or things external to itself. 1886 Athenæum 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. 1902 H. Sidgwick Philos. vi. 149 It remains to consider how far our study of the nature of mind..is affected by investigations of its past history, i.e. how far Psychology is dominated by Psychogony. 1945 Jrnl. Philos. 42 323 He [sc. Sidgwick] was equally sure that historical psychology, or psychogony, could not replace ‘subjective analysis’. 1983 Classical Q. New Ser. 33 181 Eudorus has acknowledged that there is some truth in the interpretations of both Xenocrates and Crantor concerning Plato's psychogony. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1587 |
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