What's the difference between psyche and soul?

Psyche


Definition:

  • (n.) A lovely maiden, daughter of a king and mistress of Eros, or Cupid. She is regarded as the personification of the soul.
  • (n.) The soul; the vital principle; the mind.
  • (n.) A cheval glass.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Today the physician who treats women with emotional problems during menopause cannot function solely as a psychotherapist; he must deal with both their soma and psyche.
  • (2) The author believes that research on chemical sensitivity that blames the psyche of the victim rather than the chemical will more likely be funded by the insurance or chemical industry than will other research.
  • (3) He said: "We are hoping the bear and the hare will enter the public psyche a bit like the snowmen last year."
  • (4) Even the nightmares my psyche produces in response to the horrors of today can’t come close to what these people have lived.
  • (5) A s Michael Howard’s flag-waving, sabre-rattling, Madrid-baiting intervention made clear, Gibraltar can occupy an oddly atavistic place in some corners of Britain’s collective psyche.
  • (6) From Shakespeare to Hemingway, the Jew has been assigned a special place in the psyche of the authors here described, reflecting the ongoing cultural bias as it became internalized in the selves of the authors quoted.
  • (7) Much of the answer, I believe, lies in how Ireland's dramatic social and economic transformation over the last 20 years changed the broader national psyche.
  • (8) We strictly have to make a distinction between the somato-psychic and psycho-somatic approach: The influence of diabetes mellitus in development of personality means, that there is an influence of somatic factors on the psyche.
  • (9) "It's really difficult for one of them to justify going to Bear Stearns with an order when a lot of our employees' psyches are in other places."
  • (10) Prince is really tripping on the unreconstructed male psyche here, unless, that is, he's deconstructing it.
  • (11) Hayes said Card Factory had enjoyed an unbroken run of like-for-like sales growth since it was founded in 1997 with card buying part of the UK psyche and the average British adult buying 30 a year.
  • (12) Getting into the director's head and understanding their psyche is what's hard.
  • (13) Mugisha says evangelists have played on the psyche of many Ugandans.
  • (14) The group of thanatological problems comprises also the question what happens in the patient's psyche in the last stage of his life.
  • (15) Earlier this year we wrote about Gnod , Salford's finest purveyors of ambient sludge, prog-metal and murky motorik psych-drone space-rock.
  • (16) Jung is unique in recognising that the 'dissociability of the psyche' is a fundamental process that extends along the continuum from 'normal' mental functioning to 'abnormal' states.
  • (17) More attention should be paid to the manipulation of the psyche in the prevention and management of cancer.
  • (18) And that sense of irritation came out in subsequent polls suggesting Osborne hadn't quite got the hang of a national psyche for which the term bolshie often seems inadequate.
  • (19) In this contribution, I offer the idea that perhaps the most important subtext in the psyche of the psychotic is what has been called the black hole.
  • (20) Her greatest acclaim as a screenwriter has come recently, for Last Tango in Halifax and, even more strikingly, Happy Valley , but she has dipped her pen into most of the defining soaps and kitchen-sink dramas of the British psyche, from The Archers to Coronation Street .

Soul


Definition:

  • (a.) Sole.
  • (a.) Sole.
  • (v. i.) To afford suitable sustenance.
  • (n.) The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; -- sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; -- sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling, in distinction from intellect; -- sometimes, the intellect only; the understanding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling. In a more general sense, "an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence."
  • (n.) The seat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the animating or essential part.
  • (n.) The leader; the inspirer; the moving spirit; the heart; as, the soul of an enterprise; an able general is the soul of his army.
  • (n.) Energy; courage; spirit; fervor; affection, or any other noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature; inherent power or goodness.
  • (n.) A human being; a person; -- a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul.
  • (n.) A pure or disembodied spirit.
  • (v. t.) To indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
  • (2) When the election comes, we won’t be campaigning for a coalition... ...we will be fighting heart and soul for a majority Conservative Government – because that is what our country needs.
  • (3) Much less obvious – except in the fictional domain of the C Thomas Howell film Soul Man – is why someone would want to “pass” in the other direction and voluntarily take on the weight of racial oppression.
  • (4) I approached the public inquiry after much soul-searching, weighing up the ramifications of "rocking the boat" with the potential longer-term gains of a more robust and sustainable regulator.
  • (5) "They are soul-less creatures pandering to the NRA ."
  • (6) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
  • (7) This week, after much soul-searching, she is packing up her house to move to Shropshire so that “my mum can look after me”.
  • (8) It rips at our souls every single time we look the results,” said Winters, who was paid $12.8m, including a $10m buy-out award .
  • (9) Despite the spring-heeled bounce in their hair-raising hardcore storm – and their productive affair with Funkmaster George Clinton – the Peppers’ soul stew remains predominantly, ragingly punky.
  • (10) His collection of poems Beware Soul Brother (1971) and the volume of short stories Girls at War and Other Stories (1972) drew on the experiences of the war.
  • (11) London's future-soul act Jungle are new at No 7, with another big chart entry for the classic metal act Judas Priest.
  • (12) Civilised yet unsubdued, it serves as a visual analogy for the soul of man under socialism.
  • (13) Her work has taught her not only about people’s capacity for survival, she says, but also about the darkness of the human soul.
  • (14) The 32 dead souls ringing the Dr Strangelove war room of the NFL ownership meeting interrupt their Randroid tongue-bathing only to squeal like scalded truffle pigs at the thought of any power devolving to the actual people whose ability, knowledge and gameplay make the NFL worth watching in the first place.
  • (15) I was astonished as politics had never played a part in my time as a governor, but after some soul searching over the weekend and not wishing to cause the school any further issues I tendered my resignation, which she accepted.” Eskdale School said it did not wish to comment on the matter, but the remaining governors are investigating the circumstances surrounding Ward’s resignation.
  • (16) Saying Robinson’s death made him heartsick, Reverend Alexander Gee Jr, pastor of the Fountain of Life church, recommended a soul-searching analysis.
  • (17) Warm words from Obama for Biden leave door open for support for 2016 run Read more The US vice-president, in a conference call with Democratic National Committee members, said he was trying to decide whether he could give “my whole heart and my whole soul” to a run for the White House, but also alluded to the burden that had been placed on his family by the death of his son, Beau Biden .
  • (18) She said she was sorry that she would not see the “great lives” her children would make for themselves, adding: “But if you have a little spirituality you must believe I will be watching.” Bellingham continued: “Hopefully, I have taught you to aspire to things in life and it isn’t all about money - it is what is in your soul.” Referring to her decision end chemotherapy, Bellingham said: “I know you boys will feel upset and probably cross and go through a cross part with me but you have to respect my decision.
  • (19) It’s all well and good standing in a gallery and stroking your chin, but if you cast your eyes to the left and summon the concentration it takes to read the little rectangle of artistic blurb next to it, all of that context and explanation really helps transform that weird bit of twisted wire your kid could make into something deep and primal pulled from the soul.
  • (20) In some fundamental way, the company believed she held the keys to their soul.