preconscious
Americanadjective
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Psychoanalysis. absent from but capable of being readily brought into consciousness.
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occurring prior to the development of consciousness.
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The study's author, anthropologist Michael Winkelman of Arizona State, concluded that drumming "produces pleasurable experiences, enhanced awareness of preconscious dynamics, release of emotional trauma, and reintegration of self."
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2021
In play, we express in metaphors and symbols what the unconscious or preconscious knows and wants us to see at a conscious level.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2020
Central to his thinking was the concept of “presence” — a preconscious apprehension, usually stimulated by the natural world, of “time transfigured by the moment,” as he once put it.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2016
Kant argued that space as we know it is a preconscious organizing feature of the human mind, a scaffold upon which we’re able to understand the physical world of objects, extension and motion.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 3, 2013
Bones of the mindful Romans—and savage, preconscious trees, indomitable.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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