dynamogenesis

1. the development of force, especially in the muscles or nerves.

2. the sensorimotor principle that changes in motor responses are correspondent and proportional to changes in sensory activities.

3. the idea that motor responses are evoked by sensory stimulation. Also called dynamogeny.

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January 30th 2025

oceanic feeling

an expansion of consciousness beyond one’s body (limitless extension) and a sense of unlimited power associated with identification with the universe as a whole. According to psychoanalytic theory, this feeling originates in the earliest period of life, before the infant is aware of the outside world or the distinction between the ego and nonego. Oceanic feelings may be revived later in life as a delusion or as part of a religious or spiritual experience.