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preconscious, a.|priːˈkɒnʃəs| [f. pre- B. 1 + conscious a.] Antecedent to consciousness, or to conscious action of some specified kind. spec. in Psychol., applied to memories and emotions existing at a deeper level than, or of a type different from, immediate memory or conscious thought, but which are accessible to and capable of being brought directly into consciousness; also absol. Cf. fore-conscious a. (n.) and quot. 1958.
1860J. D. Morell tr. Fichte's Contrib. to Mental Philos. iii. 43 It is not to be denied that all the apparently abnormal phenomena with which men are seized, in somnambulism, in vision,..and in ecstasy, spring out of the same spontaneous and preconscious region, from which all involuntary impulses and inspirations take their origin. 1867H. Maudsley Physiol. & Path. of Mind i. i. 15 The preconscious action of the mind, as certain metaphysical psychologists in Germany have called it. 1870E. Peacock Ralf Skirl. I. 154 A preconscious exercise of the critical faculty. 1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. viii. (1879) 352 The Physiological doctrine of ‘Unconscious Cerebration’, or, in the language of German Psychologists, the ‘Preconscious Activity of the Soul’. 1876H. Maudsley Physiol. Mind vi. 366 The so-called preconscious soul, of which some philosophers have written, is truly the preconscious mental life of the race. 1891Antidote 9 June 180 A yearning which is at present, except in a few cases, all preconscious, but still none the less hopeful. 1924W. B. Selbie Psychol. Relig. iv. 78 Consciousness, he [sc. Bergson] argues, only emerges when the individual becomes aware of his own mental states, and this allows for a preconscious or unconscious stage. 1925J. Riviere tr. Freud's Unconscious in Psycho-Anal. in Coll. Papers IV. 25 We have now gained the conviction that there are some latent ideas which do not penetrate into consciousness... We may call the latent ideas of the first type preconscious. 1942,1957[see foreconscious a. (n.)]. 1958J. Strachey Freud's Compl. Psychol. Wks. XII. 262 In the 1925 English version, throughout the paper, ‘foreconscious’ was altered to ‘preconscious’, which has..become the regular translation of the German ‘vorbewusst’. 1971N. F. Dixon Subliminal Perception iv. 90 The problem is evidently one of confusing ‘preconscious’—meaning antecedent physiological processes which do not have phenomenal representation—with the Freudian notion of ‘a preconscious’. 1978G. A. Sheehan Running & Being ix. 125 The preconscious..stores past preconceptions. |