(a.) Of or pertaining to a state before consciousness.
Example Sentences:
(1) certain forms of the passive voice; the flexibility in changing between the parts of speech) made the verbal grasp of unconscious and preconscious phenomena easier for Freud, i.e.
(2) The idea that there is more than one way meaning is achieved strengthens and enriches the case for the role of appraisal in emotion and allows the consideration of what is meant by unconscious and preconscious appraisal and the examination of how they might work.
(3) This conception is based upon cognitions, preconscious schemes and faulty information processing, that cognitive therapy corrects, using in a pragmatic way cognitive and behavioral techniques requiring an active collaboration of the patient.
(4) The clinical psychoanalytic study of out-of-awareness mental processes, understood as a dialectic shaped by the discrepancy in power between analyst and patient, illuminates the unstable relationship between the words or signifiers selected by the patient from the infinite lexicon of available, usually socially shared, verbal or non-verbal language (his plane of expression) and his varied preconscious collections of signifieds, including cultural as well as personal developmental knowledge (his plane of content).
(5) One view is that we have a definitive conception of our theory, from which we derive our clinical practice by largely preconscious deliberation.
(6) On the other hand, the role of mutation in the evolutionary process can hardly be underestimated: Leading to the change of the preconsciously functioning archetype, mutation makes it impossible for the ego to realize its image.
(7) This finding is seen as providing some support for Frith's (1979) theory that the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia are due to awareness of processes that normally occur preconsciously.
(8) Episodes of depersonalization function to keep disturbing preconscious thoughts from becoming conscious.
(9) These are reflected in the interpreter's unconscious, preconscious, and conscious mind, and they infiltrate his mediation work and relations with the public.
(10) Alterations in narcissistic ego states and disruption in preconscious processes, superimposed upon defective ego functioning, are used as explanatory concepts.
(11) We do not, on this view, determine once for all what our theory is, but continually have to discover it by exploring our preconscious as we watch ourselves at work.
(12) Finally, integrating developmental aspects of these same functions, explanations were offered regarding the mechanisms involved in preconscious perception, infantile amnesia and negative hallucinations.
(13) Within the experiential realm I present the reasons why the censorship is located on the edge of consciousness and the implications of this location for the distinction between the preconscious and the dynamic unconscious.
(14) The variety of languages and cultures is necessary to the preconscious activity of the psychoanalyst to whom it provides 'intermediate ideas'.
(15) The stimulation of erotic fantasies through the association of relaxation and erotic conscious or preconscious suggestions has been evaluated.
(16) Underlying this mechanism is the mutated, preconsciously functioning archetype, which itself is a result of the development of civilization in our contemporary world.
(17) It is likely that suspiciousness generates particularly assertive effects on preconscious processing of perceptions.
(18) A radio experiment carried out over many years, added to previous clinical tests, has shown a sustained interest of the people for using preconscious (subliminal) suggestions combined with soothing music, as a relaxation technique.
(19) Moreover, drawing inspiration from the works of a Bulgarian psychiatrist, Georgi Lozanov, there were comparisons made of the efficacy of three types of combinations whether they included different kinds of suggestions: preconscious, close to the level of consciousness or conscious.
(20) Frith (1979) suggests that the more cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia may be due to the failure to limit the current contents of consciousness due to a failure adequately to inhibit the output of preconscious processes.
Unconscious
Definition:
(a.) Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man.
(a.) Not known or apprehended by consciousness; as, an unconscious cerebration.
(a.) Having no knowledge by experience; -- followed by of; as, a mule unconscious of the yoke.
Example Sentences:
(1) It pulled to a halt and a bodyguard got out and knocked me unconscious.
(2) Some aspects of the life structure, of course, are also unconscious, namely, those having to do with attempted solutions to core personality conflicts and those reflecting modes of ego functioning.
(3) The length of delay is determined by unconscious, non-rational processes, and other factors beyond her control.
(4) This paper employs a rhetorical form designed to clarify and sharpen the focus of the very special stance required--which must be painstakingly learned under careful supervision--in order to effectively tune in to communications coming from the unconscious of the patient.
(5) With the use of two methods, measurement of conjugated dienes and thiobarbituric acid reactivity, brain lipid peroxidation could be documented as a result of exposure to CO at a concentration sufficient to cause unconsciousness.
(6) Foremost among the predisposing factors were measles (25%), empyema thoraxis (17%), and unconsciousness (13%).
(7) But there is something else seething in the collective unconscious.
(8) Paradigm relies heavily on social science research and analysis to help companies identify and address the specific barriers and unconscious biases that might be affecting their diversity efforts: things like anonymizing resumes so that employers can’t tell a candidate’s gender or ethnicity, or modifying a salary negotiation process that places women and minorities at a disadvantage.
(9) Unconsciousness was associated with a brief period of hypotension, so brief that in itself it caused no apparent insult.
(10) In the paper life-threatening diseases which may be accompanied by profound unconsciousness are explained from the laboratory-chemical point of view.
(11) Drawings by women alcoholics of the self, a murderer, the murderer's victim and victim's parent revealed conscious and unconscious identification with the depicted roles.
(12) For the final three visible minutes, Lockett writhed, groaned, attempted to lift himself off the gurney and tried to speak, despite a doctor having declared him unconscious.
(13) But like so many of his colleagues in the Trump administration , Spicer has shown us how unconsciousness and stupidity can, however paradoxically, assume a Machiavellian function – how a flagrant example of gross insensitivity and flat-out odiousness can serve as yet another useful and convenient distraction.
(14) The contribution of psychoanalysis to a theory of subjectivity involves the formation of a concept of the subject in which neither consciousness nor unconsciousness holds a privileged position in relation to the other; the two coexist in a mutually creating, preserving and negating relationship to one another.
(15) After transport to the hospital, arterial blood gases and the level of unconsciousness were again determined.
(16) This set was called by the authors a syndrome reflecting an overpowering, but latent, unconscious sense of crisis, of a catastrophe ("Catastrophe-syndrome").
(17) The authors hypothesized that physical effects like weight-gain, breast enlargement, and pseudopregnancy unconsciously supplement the conscious relief from fear of pregnancy to improve sexual adaptation.
(18) Both are alleged to have plied the Devon girl with drugs, raped her and left her unconscious to drown on Anjuna beach, metres from a bar in which the group had spent the evening drinking.
(19) Finally, we provide a contemporary cognitive account of the unconscious that attempts to combine the best both approaches within an information-processing framework.
(20) Monitoring clinical signs in unconscious patients provides only late information about cerebral deterioration.