foreconscious

[ fawr-kon-shuhs, fohr- ]

noun

, Psychology.

1. the preconscious.

Word History and Origins

Origin of foreconscious¹

First recorded in 1920–25; fore- + conscious

Example Sentences

By so doing I came to the conclusion that the origin of wit lies in a foreconscious train of thought which is left for a moment to unconscious manipulation, from which it then emerges as a joke.

From Project Gutenberg

I must add that Freud introduces a foreconscious to indicate the mind-contents which are accessible to the consciousness, but are not of it, but for the sake of simplicity I have avoided the use of that word.

From Project Gutenberg

That she should be walking the streets of London at three in the morning, alone, hastening secretly homeward like some poor outcast foreconscious of the light of dawn!—this savored somewhat of limbo and lunacy.

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Her lips said "The foreconscious self always has its reasons for hiding up the things the unconscious self knows and feels."

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We thus learn that the unconscious idea, as such, is altogether incapable of entering into the foreconscious, and that it can exert an influence there only by uniting with a harmless idea already belonging to the foreconscious, to which it transfers its intensity and under which it allows itself to be concealed.

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