psychologizev.

1810 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1973) III. §3994 In youth & early manhood we psychologize & with enthusiasm, but all out of ourselves... Afterwards, we psychologize out of others.

1830 W. Jacobson Let. in J. F. Maurice Life F. D. Maurice (1884) I. ix. 111 Neither stay away rusticating and psychologizing, but come here and mind your books.

1884 W. James in Mind 9 5 Why, since the feeling has no proper subjective name of its own, we should hesitate to psychologise about it as ‘the feeling of that relation’.

1937 ‘M. Innes’ Hamlet, Revenge! ii. vi. 167 The answer is simple enough if you psychologise. A single glance..would have told him.

1974 Sci. Amer. Aug. 115/1 The texts still like to simplify; generally we psychologize about the local event and regard the suffused experience as secondary.

2005 Weekly Standard (Nexis) 18 Apr. On a first reading, this resolute refusal to psychologize may seem odd: People are their psyches, after all.

1852 N. Brit. Rev. Feb. 315 By psychologizing a man, it is supposed we can tell what course of life he is fit for.

1891 F. M. Wilson Primer on Browning 16 He is as interested in psychologising a Paris jeweller as a queen.

1925 Amer. Mercury Dec. 404/1 Those women newspaper writers who, even in that day, were known as sob-sisters, and whose business it was to psychologize and psychiatrize the suspect.

1943 P. Larkin Let. 5 June in Sel. Lett. (1992) 57 The news that for once you have struck lucky is wholly delightful, but perhaps by now you have been selected or psychologised or put up the spout in some manner.

1996 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 3 Oct. 43/1 Before he generalized and psychologized the spirit-woman in that manner, Jung took her to be an ancient matriarchal deity.

1853 A. J. Davis Great Harmonia (new ed.) III. viii. 77 One strong mind may yet psychologize a world!

1868 Galaxy Jan. 29 You were psychologized, and made to see what was passing in the mind of the spirit.

1877 D. D. Home Lights & Shadows of Spiritualism v. 264 Dear old gullible souls who could be readily psychologized into believing that they were eating a piece of the moon in shape of ‘green cheese’.

1886 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 592/1 Is the non-concurrence of the obstinate juryman in a righteous verdict owing to an honest conviction, or has he been unconsciously psychologized by the lawyer who has the biggest fee in his pocket?

1929 P. Bowles Let. 23 Nov. in In Touch (1994) 49 You never have to get tight. You dont because you begin long before to psychologize yourself into thinking youre tight.

1990 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 10 Oct. 15 a Some Americans are fed up with being manipulated and psychologized by clever professional politicians.

1921 M. Moore Let. 27 July in Sel. Lett. (1997) 174 I have always combatted Robert's facility a little because I have felt that he didn't psychologize his detail enough.

1940 V. J. McGill in M. Farber Philos. Ess. 231 This work was a reaction against his earlier volume in which he [sc. Husserl] had attempted to psychologize arithmetic.

1957 Listener 9 May 743/2 We have been led to psychologize (to use John Dewey's rather horrid word) and to humanize learning.

1989 S. Sontag Aids & Metaphors iv. 43 One way in which AIDS..seems very different from cancer..is that no one is tempted, not yet at least, to psychologize it.

2003 Word May 118/1 A new kind of country [music] in which the genre's traditional straight talking was psychologised and turned steadily inward.

1853 A. J. Davis Great Harmonia (new ed.) III. Contents 11 The unreasonableness of bigots or psychologized believers.

1900 J. Jastrow Fact & Fable in Psychol. ii. 8 This modern priestess of Isis and Colonel Olcott (who remained her staunch supporter, but whom she referred to in private as a ‘psychologized baby’).

1961 E. Nagel Struct. of Sci. iii. 45 Various psychologized versions of the Aristotelian requirement have enjoyed wide currency.

1995 Sat. Night (Toronto) Oct. 48/1 She is..a master of the bafflegab that resounds through today's strangely psychologized corporate world.

1858 Dublin Univ. Mag. Sept. 270/2 We doubt whether all this psychologizing is good.

1895 W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 393 I never find myself actively taking up the soul, so to speak, and making it to do work in my psychologizing.

1922 C. E. M. Joad Common-sense Theol. v. 233 The so-called ‘psychologising’ tendency in modern thought.

1976 Spare Rib Oct. 38/4 A continuous stream of psychologising and explaining..leaves a reader little room to breathe or get curious about the characters.

1986 New Statesman 4 July 28/2 A brief glimpse of him, aged 15 at his mother's deathbed but unable to mourn, opens up possibilities for easy psychologising.

2002 P. Blom To have & to Hold (2003) Notes 253 Casanova's final occupation as a librarian has itself been the cause of many psychologizing comments seeking to equate the conquest of women with the collecting of books.