metapsychology

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Meaning

(psychology) The philosophical study of psychology and of the mind.

(psychology) A set of principles governing Freudian psychology.

(philosophy) The study of how human experience forms, filters perception and shapes identity.

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Sigmund Freud, On Metapsychology (Penguin Freud Library 11) p. 39 He compared such phantasising to the way a 'nature reserve preserves its original state where everything. Source: Internet

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