So my current WIP setting has, as it's main form of 'magic', the discovery that souls are literally, physically real; a measurable energy structure that can be analyzed and manipulated in a kind of spiritual surgery, analogous to genetic engineering or cybernetics in a sci-fi setting. The setting as a whole (post discovery, at least) is aesthetically medieval-esuqe fantasy but thematically more cyberpunk-ish, centering around themes of capitalism and post-human-augmentation run amok, in a world where technology (if you can even call it that) centers around making better humans rather than better tools.

I want to give in an academic-sounding name, but most of the good names seem to be taken.

From Greek, the worlds for soul are either Psyche (psychology, mainly associated with mental rather than spiritual maters) or Penuma (literally "breath" but also "spirit, hence the poetic "breath of life"; used in IRL sciences to relate to breathing and lungs)

From latin, we get Anima, which would give me either Animology (sounds like something a twelve-year-old would make up about animals) or Animancy (already used in Pillars of Eternity; while the world overall is pretty different, Animancy is juuust similar enough at a glance I want to avoid the comparison.)

I am currently using the utterly atrocious term Pneumallurgy (Spirit-working or spirit-forging, like Metallurgy) as a placeholder.

Does anyone have any better ideas?