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- noun Philosophical inquiry or theory supplementing the empirical science of psychology. Metapsychology deals with aspects of the mind that cannot be evaluated on the basis of objective or empirical evidence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A term formed on the analogy Of metaphysics to denote philosophical speculation regarding the mind, its origin, functions, etc., which is beyond the reach of verification by mental experience; metempirical psychology.
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- noun psychology The
philosophical study ofpsychology and of themind - noun psychology A set of
principles governingFreudian psychology - noun philosophy Study of how human
experience forms, filtersperception and shapesidentity .
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Examples
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*BULLSHIT* Evolutionary psychology claims to be the "metapsychology" of human behavior and that all other fields of psychology operate at a "lower level of analysis" because everything stems from evolutionary psychological forces.
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*BULLSHIT* Evolutionary psychology claims to be the "metapsychology" of human behavior and that all other fields of psychology operate at a "lower level of analysis" because everything stems from evolutionary psychological forces.
Archive 2009-01-01 JLK 2009
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Some Continental feminists map either the metapsychology of Freud or Lacan onto the culture itself, studying social systems as the competing forces of normalization and dissidence
Continental Feminism Cahill, Ann J. 2005
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As Tatar has observed, it was no accident, given the roots of psychoanalysis in mesmerism and hypnosis, that Freud should so often have had recourse to the vocabulary of hydraulics and electromagnetism in formulating his metapsychology (43-44).
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Its root assumptions, such as (to quote Dr. Mollinger) "that conscious and unconscious phenomena function under different modes" and "that psychic energy is distributed and transformed," are unamenable to empirical testing, yet they exert a controlling influence over the whole of metapsychology.
High Tide Mollinger, Robert 1976
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What this reasoning in fact shows is that Dr. Mollinger regards psychoanalysis as a deductive system, one whose particular concepts entail assent to the whole of metapsychology.
High Tide Mollinger, Robert 1976
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The language of Freud's metapsychology employed analogies such as mental
ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS ROBERT M. YOUNG 1968
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The latter are understandably concerned with pragmatic medical results instead of with nuances of metapsychology, and the wearing clinical routine does not make for long perspectives.
Literature on the Couch Crews, Frederick C. 1966
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The nipple is a sexual object throughout Freudian metapsychology.
Kottu 2009
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I thought I might have children some day; so child psychology seemed more useful than institutional behavior, sociology of the exotics, or alien metapsychology. "
The Chaos Balance Modesitt, L. E. 1997
mercy commented on the word metapsychology
oops! No delete?
July 2, 2008
mercy commented on the word metapsychology
Meta, beyond, transcending, + psychology. http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?metapsychology
July 2, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word metapsychology
'Delete' appears mysteriously after the first edit.
July 2, 2008