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psychic apparatus
[ sahy-kik ap-uh-rat-uhs, -rey-tuhs ]
noun
, Psychoanalysis.
- the mind considered as a collection of structures and mechanisms, such as ego, superego, and id.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of psychic apparatus1
First recorded in 1900–05
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Example Sentences
His psychic apparatus never failed in letting him know the proximity of an incarnate or discarnate being.
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If we now follow our scheme of the psychic apparatus, we can localize a wish of the first order in the system Forec.
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Thus far we have elaborated the plan of the psychic apparatus; these two systems are the germ of the Unc.
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