Troi had not felt such complex psychic structures since she had bonded with her own teacher on Betazed.

These 'significant others' over time actually become a part of the psychic structure of the child from which develops the concept of self.

The child's psychic structure must not only be that of his or her white parents and of white society.

The jazz band," he continues, "is the expression of the psychic structure of the modern human being.

Seeing defenses as developing in internal psychic structures in order to avoid unpleasant consequences of conflict.

She proposes that the "psychic structure" prevalent in our society whereby the male is subject, the female, object, is at the root of domination.

And might not this pleasure serve to secure an alternative psychic structure to the one Freud described?

"Understanding your deep psychic structure isn't what's important in breaking a self-destructive cycle," she said.

The first volume traces the historical developments of the European habitus, or "second nature," the particular individual psychic structures molded by social attitudes.

The insulation barrier is a psychic structure that supports and protects ego boundaries.