Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The (supposed) soul of the world.
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- noun Alternative form of
world soul .
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Examples
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For excitability, even if in a physiochemical rather than psychological way, introduces a volatility, a certain restlessness of the negative, into the world-soul as the embryo of the "world-spirit."
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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Ages refers only to a "disorder in the body" that is no sooner named than resolved (W2 159), in keeping with the text's idealization of magnetic sleep as a harmonizing of the chemistry of the individual with the cosmic fluid of the world-soul.
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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Grant argues that the world-soul unconditions the subject of the organization.
Notes on ''The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)' 2008
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While such images flit from mind to mind on a nocturnal telepathic circuit, their persistence over time, over centuries, builds an independence that Jungians sometimes consider to betray the presence of an anima mundi, or world-soul.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010
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But in fact Mesmerism in 1813 is still connected to Schelling's early interest in a vital fluid that is the physiochemical proof of the world-soul (Weltseele), [18] and it involves the rebalancing of the inner chemistry
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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The world-soul, of course, should not be seen as a conventionally organicist concept.
Notes on ''The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)' 2008
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Nor is it surprising that Schelling finds himself developing the more disturbing implications of magnetic sleep, given how he had already complicated the allied figures of a cosmic fluid and world-soul in The First Outline by thinking them through John Brown's theory of
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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While such images flit from mind to mind on a nocturnal telepathic circuit, their persistence over time, over centuries, builds an independence that Jungians sometimes consider to betray the presence of an anima mundi, or world-soul.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010
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Coming is the new Hollywood Religion of Syncretism, in which all religions are man-made expressions of a desire for the world-soul.
Tissier de Mallerais speaks The details of the doctrinal talks 2009
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First, this intellect, the world-soul, is also active in maintaining the world in existence
Numenius Karamanolis, George 2009
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