subception

English

Noun

subception (uncountable)

1. (psychology) An unconscious perceptual defense of applying strategies to prevent a troubling stimulus from entering consciousness.
   • 2012, William F. O'Neill, George D. Demos, Philosophical Psychology: A New Frontier in Education and Therapy, p. 18:

     Since the internal environment of memory is selective on the basis of prior emotional reinforcements of experience, internal subception of images, ideas and such is necessarily very complicated.