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psychism

(ˈsaɪkɪzəm)

1. (Alternative Belief Systems) the belief in a universal soul; the attributing of souls to inanimate objects or phenomena

2. (Alternative Belief Systems) the doctrine proposing the existence of psychic phenomena

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psychism

the doctrines concerning the second of three Gnostic orders of mankind, those endowed with souls and free wills, savable through the right use of the latter. Cf. hylicism, pneumatism.

See also: Philosophy

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty, for example, would argue that man is not to be found at the intersection of multiple causality, which determines the body or the psychism; nor can we simply conceive him as a part of the world, a mere "object of biology, psychology or sociology" (Merleau-Ponty 1999: 6).

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As it were, the assignability of thought, psychism and abstraction outside the human finds a necessary accompaniment in a heightened expression of solicitude for others.

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And the athlete's psychism is automated at the same time as his body.

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Likewise, Rey (2000), when discussing the place of emotions in the social constitution of psychism, reinforces once again the idea of affective universe and driving force as interrelated elements, present in Vygotskian studies.

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