psychopia  [sahy-koh pee-uh] is our internal media

psycho (or psych) – mind, soul

> pref. [from Greek psukhē spirit, breath] mind, soul, psyche – the human spirit or soul

poeia – making

> suff. [Greek] making, producing, creating, creative, forming, formation

psycho·pia  (psycho·poeia) – noun

> mind-making

> memory, imagination, dreams

> all images created and cached in the subconscious of an individual

Origin:

In literary analysis, logopoeia or logopia refers to the verbal impact of poetic language. Ezra Pound coined the word in 1917 from Greek roots in a review of the poetry of Mina Loy — he defined the term as “the dance of the intellect among words and ideas”.

Pound came to contrast logopia, the phenomenon of exclusively verbal context, with two other effects of poetry:

– Phanopia (phanopoeia) – the suggesting of visuality, fantasy, an image through the eye, metaphor and image

– Melopia (melopoeia) – the suggesting of musicality and rhythm, an image through the ear, meter and rhyme

Expanding on this idea, psychopia (psycho·poeia) is simply our internal media.