All 3 Uses of
subconscious
in
The Fountainhead
- Mr. Toohey has merely stated the hidden significance that was subconsciously in your own mind.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- …without a single letter o, and another who wrote poems that neither rhymed nor scanned; a man with a beard who was sophisticated and proved it by using every unprintable four-letter word in every ten pages of his manuscript; a woman who imitated Lois Cook, except that her style was less clear; when asked for explanations she stated that this was the way life sounded to her, when broken by the prism of her subconscious—"You know what a prism does to a ray of light, don't you?" she said.†
Chpt 2.9
- There was a stout middle-aged lady who drew subconsciously, claiming that she never looked at her hand and had no idea of what the hand was doing; her hand, she said, was guided by the spirit of the departed lover whom she had never met on earth.†
Chpt 2.9
Definition:
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(subconscious) mental activity of which one is not aware, but which can influence feelings and behavior; or the part of the mind that engages in such activityeditor's notes: Though commonly used in daily conversation, the word subconscious is not used clinically. Where the layperson says subconscious, psychologists are likely to say unconscious mind.