Definition.
Things which have the psychoid property can be understood to:
- bridge the domains of the mental and physical, or the mental and spiritual, and/or
- to transcend considerations of the merely mental and physical
The archetype, for instance, is said to be psychoid because it has its roots in the collective unconscious, and yet it enfolds itself into the complex, where it is then able to express itself through the body and in the material world. This understanding aligns with the psychoid bridging function. See also archetype.
Jeffrey Raff, however, has proposed that the terms psychoid and imaginal are fairly interchangeable, and that the imaginal domain can be understood as the psychoid domain. This account of the psychoid highlights its nature as transcendent. See also imaginal.