Unconscious might refer to:
In physiology:
- unconsciousness, the lack of consciousness or responsiveness to people and other environmental stimuli
In psychology:
- Unconscious mind, the mind operating well outside the attention of the conscious mind as defined by Sigmund Freud and others
- unconscious, an altered state of consciousness with limited conscious awareness
- not conscious
Famous quotes containing the word unconscious:
“The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)
“All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself—civilization, in a word—are the fruits of the creative artist. It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which charactizes the animal world from which he made his escape.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
“The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)