superconscious
English
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[edit]superconscious (not comparable)
- Above or beyond the conscious.
- 1989, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Hermine I. Popper, Creating a Role, page 91:
- The only approach to the superconscious, to the unreal, is through the real, the ultranatural, that is to say through nature and its normal, unforced, creative life.
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[edit]superconscious (uncountable)
- (psychology) That part of mind that is beyond the conscious.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 135:
- You have to go to those who are at home in the unconscious and the superconscious, the artists and prophets; through myth and symbol in art, science fiction, or religion, they will describe the present by speaking about the future.