In psychology, your psyche is your mind and your deepest feelings and attitudes. His exploration of the myth brings insight into the American psyche. Variant of psych. someone's mind, or their deepest feelings, which control their attitudes and behaviour. In Greek and Roman mythology, a beautiful princess who won Cupid's love. Her beauty was such that worshipers began to turn away from Venus, and the envious goddess commanded her son Cupid to make Psyche fall in love with the most despicable of men. But Cupid himself fell in love with Psyche and hid her in a remote place, where he visited her secretly under cover of darkness. One night she lit a lamp and discovered her lover's identity. He left angrily, and Psyche wandered the earth searching for him and was captured by Venus. After Cupid rescued Psyche, Jupiter made her immortal and gave her in marriage to Cupid
(A beautiful woman of ancient mythology loved by Cupid) Greek for "soul" or the "mind" (Instructor's note: In modern psychology, the psyche is taken to be an aggregate of the constituent parts that make up our "selves": a more complex mental organism than was envisioned by the Greeks)
The Soul or the Mind The principle of animation From Greek psychein to breathe, blow James Hillman defines soul as a "perspective rather than a substance; a viewpoint toward things rather than the thing itself" "an inner place or deeper person or ongoing presence -- that is simply there even when all our subjectivity, ego, and consciousness go into eclipse " And, "that unknown component which makes meaning possible " The specific sense in psychology of the mind as the center of thought, emotions, and behavior, is first recorded in 1910, in C G Jung's writings See anima
(sy-ki) -- from Greek for breath, hence soul, spirit, mind, especially as distinguished from the body Psyche was personified by the "ancient" Greeks as a Goddess, beloved of Eros (in Latin, Cupid)
that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason; "his mind wandered"; "I couldn't get his words out of my head"
(Greek mythology) a beautiful princess loved by Cupid who visited her at night and told her she must not try to see him; became the personification of the soul