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foreconscious

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[fawr-kon-shuhs, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌkɒn ʃəs, ˈfoʊr- /

noun

Psychology.
  1. the preconscious.


Etymology

Origin of foreconscious

First recorded in 1920–25; fore- + conscious


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This fringe-region or foreconscious is in fact the organ of contemplation, as the realistic outward looking mind is the organ of action.

From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Evelyn Underhill

It is the foreconscious that accomplishes this work; and the only course to be pursued by psychotherapy is the subjugate the Unc, to the domination of the Forec.

From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Sigmund Freud

That she should be walking the streets of London at three in the morning, alone, hastening secretly homeward like some poor outcast foreconscious of the light of dawn!—this savored somewhat of limbo and lunacy.

From The Late Tenant by Louis Tracy

Consider now that half-lit region which is called the foreconscious mind; for this is of special interest to the spiritual life.

From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Evelyn Underhill

The first part expended itself progressively from the unconscious scenes or phantasies to the foreconscious, while the second part gravitates from the advent of the censor back to the perceptions.

From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Sigmund Freud

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