Sentences with 'psychic'
Example sentences and phrases with the word psychic and other words derived from it.
• « Freudian theory saw neurosis as a psychic mechanism similar to that of errors or "failed acts", and to that of the dream: the fruit of a repression of infantile impulses - libidinal or sexual - for which reason it would be fundamental in therapy to be able to access the repressed neurotic contents. »
• « Influenced by modernist philosophers, by great writers such as Shakespeare, and by Darwin's work on evolution, Freud came to believe that the mind itself 'evolved' from infancy to adulthood in a fundamentally hostile psychic environment. »
• « Unconfirmed reports suggest that the CIA maintains a training corps for scanners recruited for their psychic powers. These would be endowed with powers that would allow them to block communication systems and influence the psyche of others. »