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 *subconsciously = of mental activity of which one is not aware, but which can influence feelings and behavior
- The rest included a woman who never used capitals in her books, and a man who never used commas; a youth who had written a thousand-page novel 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 2.9subconscious = mental activity of which we are not aware, but which can influence feelings and behavior
- 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 2.9subconsciously = of mental activity of which one is not aware, but which can influence feelings and behavior
Definition:
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 activity
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.