All 3 Uses of
subconscious
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- I can imitate the father he's supposed to have, but subconsciously, at the Quality level, he sees through it and knows his real father isn't here.†
Part 4 *subconsciously = of mental activity of which one is not aware, but which can influence feelings and behavior
- Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people...what a great distant dream it is, present but unseen in the deepest levels of subconsciousness, and when they arrive at the ocean and the conscious images are compared with the subconscious dream there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be so stopped by a mystery that can never be fathomed.†
Part 4
- Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people...what a great distant dream it is, present but unseen in the deepest levels of subconsciousness, and when they arrive at the ocean and the conscious images are compared with the subconscious dream there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be so stopped by a mystery that can never be fathomed.†
Part 4subconscious = mental activity of which we are 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.