WordNet
n. that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware [syn: unconscious]
Wikipedia
The unconscious mind (or the unconscious) consists of the processes in the mind which occur automatically and are not available to introspection, and include thought processes, memories, interests, and motivations.
Even though these processes exist well under the surface of conscious awareness they are theorized to exert an impact on behavior. The term was coined by the 18th-century German Romantic philosopher Friedrich Schelling and later introduced into English by the poet and essayist Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Empirical evidence suggests that unconscious phenomena include repressed feelings, automatic skills, subliminal perceptions, thoughts, habits, and automatic reactions, and possibly also complexes; hidden phobias and desires.
The concept was popularized by the Austrian neurologist and psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. In psychoanalytic theory, unconscious processes are understood to be directly represented in dreams, as well as in slips of the tongue and jokes.
Thus the unconscious mind can be seen as the source of dreams and automatic thoughts (those that appear without any apparent cause), the repository of forgotten memories (that may still be accessible to consciousness at some later time), and the locus of implicit knowledge (the things that we have learned so well that we do them without thinking).
It has been argued that consciousness is influenced by other parts of the mind. These include unconsciousness as a personal habit, being unaware, and intuition. Phenomena related to semi-consciousness include awakening, implicit memory, subliminal messages, trances, hypnagogia, and hypnosis. While sleep, sleepwalking, dreaming, delirium, and comas may signal the presence of unconscious processes, these processes are seen as symptoms rather than the unconscious mind itself.
Some critics have doubted the existence of the unconscious.
Usage examples of "unconscious mind".
For again, man projects his own unconscious mind on to the world about him and asserts to himself and all comers that that is how it really is.
Ender had decided that he wanted to share Mother's life in the monastery, but his unconscious mind was far more interested in the translation project here and in whatever it is Peter's doing.
I believe these energy lines are mirror images of the electro-magnetic network that surrounds this planet, and I also believe that they can be damaged by the collective unconscious mind.
Dreams are a way for the unconscious mind to give us its wisdom about handling emotional situations.
You even have an unconscious mind, code that runs in the background.
When awareness returns, the conscious mind is convinced that the old position was the correct one, while the unconscious mind senses the new position.
Your unconscious mind knew and you started to hate and you started to free yourself.
It would be essentially the conscious mind as opposed to the unconscious mind.
It was an important hour of the day, for he was still stunned by the swiftness of the change, and his unconscious mind needed time to absorb it.
It Is not in his conscious thought, and I cannot explore the unconscious mind.