lack of awareness In Freudian terms, repressed psychological material The part of the mind of which a person is only rarely aware
not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead; "lay unconscious on the floor"
According to Freud, the area of the psyche where unknown wishes and needs are kept that play a significant role in our conscious behavior
If you are unconscious of something, you are unaware of it. He himself seemed totally unconscious of his failure = oblivious conscious + unconsciously un·con·scious·ly `I was very unsure of myself after the divorce,' she says, unconsciously sweeping back the curls from her forehead
If feelings or attitudes are unconscious, you are not aware that you have them, but they show in the way that you behave. Unconscious envy manifests itself very often as this kind of arrogance + unconsciously un·con·scious·ly I think racism is unconsciously inherent in practically everyone
(followed by `of') not knowing or perceiving; "happily unconscious of the new calamity at home"- Charles Dickens
not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead; "lay unconscious on the floor" without conscious volition
a topographical term for the unknown process of the psyche The unconscious is unconscious only to the ego--we don't know if it is actually that way
Contains all your memories, and your reactions to memories from birth Seat of your emotions and directs almost all your behavior Controls our automatic processes and thinking Receives two million messages of sensory awareness every second
Mental activity of which the person engaging in it is not aware; hence a presumed source of unknown internal influences over the conduct of human agent Psychoanalysts like Freud, Jung, and Lacan supposed it possible to discover the content and significance of such influences with suitable methods of psychiatric investigation
that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware
Lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception; not conscious Without conscious control; involuntary or unintended
Someone who is unconscious is in a state similar to sleep, usually as the result of a serious injury or a lack of oxygen. By the time ambulancemen arrived he was unconscious conscious + unconsciousness un·con·scious·ness He knew that he might soon lapse into unconsciousness