Word: psychee
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Ancient man had a psyche, by which he meant a soul. Modern man has a psyche, by which he is apt to mean a cumbersome machine full of id and superego, conscious and unconscious, with optional accessories such as Oedipal feedbacks. In place of the soul he has put psychology...
Specific "diseases of adaptation," according to Selye, include rheumatoid and gouty arthritis, several kidney disorders and some types of high blood pressure. Less well-defined but perhaps more clearly related to stress are emotional disturbances. There is also a two-way vicious cycle: besides "psychosomatic" illnesses in which a sick...
In Dr. Harding's book the helpful Interpreter becomes the wise analyst. The all-too-literal Hell that Christian fears, she reads as psychosis. When, at the sight of the Cross, Christian is finally freed of his burden of sin, Dr. Harding explains that, actually, he "had found the...
Yet behind all the gesticulating and expectorating not many people have considered that perhaps Ted was possessed of some inner, subconscious motivation, the type which Louis Macneice included in his Epilogue for W.H. Auden, stating that it is "time for soul to stretch and spit, before the world comes back...
CONTINENTAL DEFENSE. Key West gave the air defense of the U.S. to the Air Force, limited the Army to an antiaircraft role. But, using "antiaircraft" as its entering wedge, the Army developed the radar-controlled, ground-to-air Nike (rhymes with psyche), which it now touts as the backbone of...