also psychical (-kĭ-kəl) Of, relating to, affecting, or influenced by the human mind or psyche; mental: psychic trauma; psychic energy.
Who gave the concept of psychic energy?
The notion of psychic energy has its source in the works of neurophysiologists at the end of the 19th century, Sigmund Exner in particular, or in the psychophysics of Gustav Fechner, and it is present in the psychiatry of that epoch.
What is psychic energy by Freud?
In psychology, psychic energy, or psychological energy, is the energy by which the workof the personality is performed. The concept of mental energies moving or displacing between various adjoined, conscious and unconscious, mental systems was developed predominantly in Sigmund Freud's 1923 The Ego and the Id.