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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unconscious
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
knock sb unconscious/cold/senseless (=hit someone so hard that they fall unconscious)
▪ Simon could knock a man unconscious with one punch to the jaw.
render sb/sth impossible/harmless/unconscious etc
▪ He was rendered almost speechless by the news.
▪ The blow to his head was strong enough to render him unconscious.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
desire
▪ In Western society, adults may play with money as an acceptable substitute for the unconscious desire to play with faeces.
▪ In practice, of course, it would be extremely hard to establish any such unconscious desires in the complainant.
▪ Another contributing aspect of enjoying school in my opinion is an unconscious desire to learn.
level
▪ During pregnancy and the months immediately following birth, men frequently identify at an unconscious level with their partners.
▪ A changing array of signifiers at both the conscious and the unconscious levels will effect changes in the signified.
▪ An analogy might be the lip-reading that we do at an unconscious level.
mind
▪ Adler paid less attention to the unconscious mind and more to goal-directed therapy.
▪ Your unconscious mind works out many of your conflicts in dreams, and generally prepares you for the challenges of the day.
▪ We often ignore intuition, when it's possible that intuitive responses are our past experiences lodged in our unconscious minds.
▪ We should not forget our animal origins or our brain's capacity to malfunction or the hidden potential of the unconscious mind.
▪ At the deepest level, if you want to explore your unconscious mind be prepared to spend time and money.
▪ Edward suggested that the memory might be in your unconscious mind even though you can not remember it.
▪ Give his unconscious mind a chance and it usually showed his feet which way to go.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
unconscious desires
▪ Billy was unconscious for two days after the accident.
▪ His comments were an unconscious insult to Irish people.
▪ Many women are the victims of unconscious discrimination by men.
▪ The unconscious man was carefully lifted onto a stretcher.
▪ the unconscious mind
▪ There was a woman lying unconscious on the floor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Any purpose there is will not be found within the physical structure of unconscious entities.
▪ The subordinate and superior then align with each other in mutual satisfaction of their unconscious needs.
▪ They called an ambulance when Clare became unconscious and her lips turned blue, but by then it was too late.
▪ With an unconscious sigh of her own, she touched her fingers to her cheek, just as he had done.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
collective
▪ He came into existence to fulfil a need arising from the collective unconscious.
▪ An omission this flagrant points to something deeper in our collective unconscious.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A heavy concentration of the drug may produce dizziness or even unconsciousness.
▪ She managed to crawl into a shed, and then lapsed into unconsciousness.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And most recently, Freud eliminated the discontinuity between the rational world of the ego and the irrational world of the unconscious.
▪ Assault charge: A man who is alleged to have knocked a police woman unconscious was bailed by Darlington magistrates yesterday.
▪ More extreme retreats to the unconscious are the stuff of art-historical legend.
▪ The anniversary had remained trapped in the unconscious, never reflected on.
▪ This eclectic philosophical mixture underlies his account of the unconscious.
▪ Where patients were brought in unconscious, and therefore unable to disclose their faith, a simple method was followed.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unconscious

Unconscious \Un*con"scious\, a.

  1. Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man.
    --Cowper.

  2. Not known or apprehended by consciousness; as, an unconscious cerebration. ``Unconscious causes.''
    --Blackmore.

  3. Having no knowledge by experience; -- followed by of; as, a mule unconscious of the yoke.
    --Pope. [1913 Webster] -- Un*con"scious-ly, adv. -- Un*con"scious*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unconscious

1712, "unaware, not marked by conscious thought," from un- (1) "not" + conscious. Meaning "temporarily insensible, knocked out" is recorded from 1860. Related: Unconsciously; unconsciousness. In psychology, the noun the unconscious (1876) is a loan-translation of German das Unbewusste. The adjective in this sense is recorded from 1912.

Wiktionary
unconscious

a. 1 Not awake; having no awareness. 2 Without directed thought or awareness. 3 (context sports English) engaged in skilled performance without conscious control. n. (context psychology English) Unconscious mind

WordNet
unconscious
  1. adj. not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead; "lay unconscious on the floor" [ant: conscious]

  2. without conscious volition

  3. (followed by `of') not knowing or perceiving; "happily unconscious of the new calamity at home"- Charles Dickens [syn: unconscious(p)]

unconscious

n. that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware [syn: unconscious mind]

Wikipedia
Unconscious

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Usage examples of "unconscious".

Wherever traditional religions are united under the badge of philosophy a conservative syncretism is the result, because the allegoric method, that is, the criticism of all religion, veiled and unconscious of itself, is able to blast rocks and bridge over abysses.

Thus, if not the whole truth, it is yet a large part of it, that the Heathen Pantheon, in its infinite diversity of names and personifications, was but a multitudinous, though in its origin unconscious allegory, of which physical phenomena, and principally the Heavenly Bodies, were the fundamental types.

In general, Sartre was suspicious of psychoanalysis, put off by what he saw as dogmatic symbolism, mechanistic explanation, a preponderant role for the unconscious and sexuality, and an analytic method dividing the personality into hermetic components rather than attempting to comprehend it both in its singularity and, synthetically, as an indivisible totality.

I believe that the ancient Creed, the Eternal Gospel, will stand, and conquer, and prove its might in this age, as it has in every other for eighteen hundred years, by claiming, and subduing, and organising those young anarchic forces, which now, unconscious of their parentage, rebel against Him to whom they owe their being.

There was in her gesture an unconscious yearning, a mute and anguished appeal, as though from the oppressions of human character to the broad strength of nature, that was not lost on Delafield.

There is an unconscious employment of apperception in the practical affairs of life that is of interest.

In this sense, the Mandala is an archetypal form generated by unconscious nature well prior to the evolution of human consciousness.

All of these locations are at one level archetypal representations of the unconscious as a whole.

The Trickster is another archetype standing at the boundaries between consciousness and the unconscious.

The Bololos, their psyches contaminated by the contents of the human unconscious, took them up and began to act out myths and archetypical situations.

The young girl leaned forward in her chair with an attention so breathless, a sympathy so quick, and an admiration so artless and unconscious that in an instant she divided with the speaker the attention of the whole assemblage.

Josiah Bartram was not alone in the room, but the old man seemed entirely unconscious of the presence of the others.

Being angry was a relief, but it was not exactly a solution, and Bernard, at last, leaving his place, where for an hour or two he had been absolutely unconscious of everything that went on around him, wandered about for some time in deep restlessness and irritation.

Culture from its old pride of exclusiveness and feeling of unconscious superiority.

While a fascination with the unconscious world of dreams is conspicuous in expressionism, students of the period have emphasized in particular the socio-critical purposes to which the fairy tale was often devoted.