Psyche is a word of Greek origin, which etymologically means "breath of life", animating the body. Aristotle spoke of psyché as bios (life). The Romans translated psyché in anima (soul), retaining the Platonic dualism of soul/body that even Descartes maintained in the seventeenth century, dividing the mental from the physical.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupid_and_Psyche
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