psychotronicsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From psyche + electronics, coined during the Iron Curtain decades after French term psychotronique attributed to engineer Fernand Clerc, who proposed it in November 1954's number of journal ‘Vie des Métiers’ (translatable as "Life of profession"), defining it as "use of thought and will".^{[1][footnotes 1]}

Resumed and popularized by French technical magazine ‘Toute la Radio’ in January of the following year,^{[1][2][footnotes 2][3][footnotes 3]} with the author mentioning Fernard Clerc as the coiner and speculating, although with technical background, on the theoretical chance of engaging in telekinesis, but particularly on the chance of operating microwave printed circuit boards by means of concentration, justifying it with the argument that "brain currents are detected and measured at the micro-volts".

In the late 1960s the term was popular among parapsychology researchers of the socialist bloc (particularly Zdeněk Rejdák, a prolific Czech scientist), and admittedly used to dub the term parapsychology to avoid its negative connotations, "to advance parapsychology as a science" (as stated in the Constitution of the Parapsychological Association in 1957) and because apparently, other than the desired scientific aptitude and status it lacked the concept of energy, which is found now in the desinence electronics. The term was then popularized in western world during the second half of the Cold War by science fiction and fears of mind control.

According to a 1983 text by parapsychology researcher Larissa Vilenskaya, "the term was first proposed with the analogy of bionics in mind", possibly referring to ‘Toute la Radio’'s article.^[4]

名詞

psychotronics (uncountable)

1. A military technology dealing with electronic weapons or devices used to either degrade or enhance human health by directed energy.
   • 1998, Timothy L. Thomas, The Mind Has No Firewall, Article

     "Other researchers are studying high-frequency generators (those designed to stun the psyche with high frequency waves such as electromagnetic, acoustic, かつ gravitational); the manipulation or reconstruction of someone's thinking through planned measures such as reflexive control processes; the use of psychotronics, parapsychology, bioenergy, bio fields, and psychoenergy; [..]"

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2. Synonym of parapsychology

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