“The Totality of the Human Mind”

Linguistically the word of distinction for me is "Psyche," for the way it boggles the eye, ear, and mind. Were a child or nonnative speaker to apply basic English phonics unguided, what would that sound like-- puhswhycheh?

There is something insidious about the silent P, and the refusal of the ch to be read as its proper digraph, as well as the sneakily audible eee-- all of which combined seem to leverage the sight/sound of the term into synapsis of a mental oddity.

The dictionary offers Sī-kē, as pronunciation, which makes me visualize Greek goddesses and sure enough, Psyche is the one with butterfly wings, ruling over the Soul.

Yet, when saying the word aloud, I draw a blank as to how we should ink that-- Sighky?--and suddenly the word seems poignantly sad, like an old armoire whose small skeleton key has been retrievably lost over the years, in the course of moving about.

Knowing the articulation and spelling and etymology, I'm further confounded by the Rubik's cube of consonants tied to one final precipitous vowel. I can't help but think, is this the epitome of our Thinking? and what if one were to neglect, or forget, to say that all so critical eeee--?

Psych[e]: the mind playing tricks on itself, eh?!