foreconscious

American  

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

noun

Psychology.

1. the preconscious.

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Etymology

Origin of foreconscious

First recorded in 1920–25; fore- + conscious

Example Sentences

I was not frightened because I dreamed that my mother was dying, but I interpreted the dream in this manner in the foreconscious elaboration because I was already under the domination of the anxiety.

From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Freud, Sigmund

We may say that the hitherto foreconscious train of thought has been drawn into the unconscious.

From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Freud, Sigmund

This wish now endeavors to make its way to consciousness on the normal path of the mental processes through the foreconscious, to which indeed it belongs through one of its constituent elements.

From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Freud, Sigmund

The unconscious entangles with its connections preferentially either those impressions and ideas of the foreconscious which have been left unnoticed as indifferent, or those that have soon been deprived of this attention through rejection.

From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Freud, Sigmund

On the other hand, composite and compromise formations occur with extraordinary frequency when we are trying to find the linguistic expression for foreconscious thoughts; these are considered "slips of the tongue."

From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Freud, Sigmund