1º_ Psychological and religious belief (and consequently also artistic resource) that attributes characteristics of a living being with a soul and feelings to natural objects and phenomena. It is a common thought in children that corresponds to adult religious fetishism. See anima ("soul"), suffix -ism, hylozoism. Pseudoscientific doctrine which attributes changes in physical state to the spirit. While there are psychosomatic reactions that can end in illness, this is more for the study of psychiatry and psychology than for the mystical assumption of the existence of a soul.
