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

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Example Sentences

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foreconscious

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

All other processes in the system, even those in the foreconscious, are devoid of any psychic quality, and are therefore not objects of consciousness inasmuch as they do not furnish pleasure or pain for perception.

From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Sigmund Freud

This little parable represents, more or less, that which psychology means by the conscious, foreconscious, and unconscious regions of the psyche.

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

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 Sigmund Freud

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

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