psychic apparatus

[ sahy-kik ap-uh-rat-uhs, -rey-tuhs ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Psychoanalysis.

the mind considered as a collection of structures and mechanisms, such as ego, superego, and id.

First recorded in 1900–05

His psychic apparatus never failed in letting him know the proximity of an incarnate or discarnate being.

If we now follow our scheme of the psychic apparatus, we can localize a wish of the first order in the system Forec.

Thus far we have elaborated the plan of the psychic apparatus; these two systems are the germ of the Unc.

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