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a Greek girl turned goddess turned the entire blueprint of your messy inner self
means The human mind, soul, or spirit — the deep core of who you are, including all the conscious and unconscious stuff driving you.
from From Greek 'psyche,' meaning both 'soul' and 'breath' — the ancients linked the life inside you to the air leaving your lips, so the dying were said to breathe out their psyche. The same word named Psyche, the mortal woman beloved by Eros and made immortal, often pictured as a butterfly-winged maiden (the Greek word doubled as 'butterfly,' that fluttering emblem of the soul). It entered English in the 17th century as a poetic word for the soul, then got drafted into the modern vocabulary of the mind through 'psychology,' 'psychiatry,' and the rest of the psych- family.
- original meaning
- Greek for both soul and butterfly
- mythic origin
- mortal so beautiful Venus got jealous
- asteroid namesake
- a metal world worth quintillions in orbit
- the fakeout
- yelled to mean just kidding since the eighties
- freud's trio
- id, ego and superego squabbling forever
psyche spacecraft — nasa mission launched 2023 to explore the metal-rich asteroid psyche in the main asteroid belt
psyche and cupid — roman mythological story where psyche (goddess of the soul) is tested by aphrodite and marries cupid