psyche: [17] Like Latin animus (source of English animal), Greek psūkhé started out meaning ‘breath’ and developed semantically to ‘soul, spirit’. English adopted it via Latin psychē in the mid-17th century, but it did not really begin to come into its own until the middle of the 19th century, when the development of the sciences of the mind saw it pressed into service in such compound forms as psychology (first recorded in 1693, but not widely used until the 1830s) and psychiatry (first recorded in 1846), which etymologically means ‘healing of the mind’. => psychiatry, psychology
psyche (n.)
1640s, "animating spirit," from Latin psyche, from Greek psykhe "the soul, mind, spirit; breath; life, one's life, the invisible animating principle or entity which occupies and directs the physical body; understanding" (personified as Psykhe, the beloved of Eros), akin to psykhein "to blow, cool," from PIE root *bhes- "to blow, to breathe" (source also of Sanskrit bhas-), "Probably imitative" [Watkins].
Also in ancient Greek, "departed soul, spirit, ghost," and often represented symbolically as a butterfly or moth. The word had extensive sense development in Platonic philosophy and Jewish-influenced theological writing of St. Paul (compare spirit (n.)). Meaning "human soul" is from 1650s. In English, psychological sense "mind," is attested by 1910.
雙語例句
1. His exploration of the myth brings insight into the American psyche.
他對這個神話的探討揭示了美國人的心理。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He portrays the psyche as poly-centric.
在他的描繪中精神是多中心的。
來自柯林斯例句
3. She spent her life plumbing the mysteries of the human psyche.
她畢生探索人類心靈的奧秘。
來自《權威詞典》
4. She knew, at some deep level of her psyche, that what she was doing was wrong.
她在內(nèi)心深處還是知道自己當時正在做錯誤的事。
來自《權威詞典》
5. "It probably shows up a deeply immature part of my psyche," he confesses.