All 4 Uses of
subconscious
in
The Pigman
- It's a kind of subconscious, schizophrenic fibbing, if you ask me, and if those parents don't have guilt complexes, I don't know who has.†
Chpt 4subconscious = mental activity of which we are not aware, but which can influence feelings and behavior
- Like the subconscious kind.†
Chpt 5
- "...and you can't even tell a subconscious suicide when you talk to one. ... He sounded just like the kind of guy who'd commit suicide by taking a cold shower and then leaving the windows open to die of pneumonia!"
Chpt 5 *
- You're always blabbing about the subconscious, and you can't even tell a subconscious suicide when you talk to one.†
Chpt 5
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.