Fantasy in a psychological sense is broadly used to cover two different senses, conscious and unconscious.

This was the unconscious force within the individual that contributed to illness, Freud in fact coming to consider " the obstacle of an unconscious sense of guilt ... as the most powerful of all obstacles to recovery.

* Guilt, unconscious sense of

Human perception occurs by a complex, unconscious process of abstraction, in which certain details of the incoming sense data are noticed and remembered, and the rest forgotten.

In a sense this view places the self in relationship to their unconscious as an adversary, warring with itself to keep what is unconscious hidden.

In a sense, this view places the conscious self as an adversary to its unconscious, warring to keep the unconscious hidden.

As opposed to the psychoanalytic tradition, driven by the relatively speculative ( in the sense of being hard to empirically verify ), theoretical concepts such as the Oedipus complex or Electra complex, the cognitive tradition of research on unconscious processes is based on relatively few theoretical assumptions and is very empirically oriented ( i. e., it is mostly data driven ).

Bion's concept of maternal " reverie " as the capacity to sense ( and make sense of ) what is going on inside the infant has been an important element in post-Kleinian thought: " reverie is an act of faith in unconscious process ... essential to alpha-function '" It is considered the equivalent of Stern's attunement, or Winnicott's maternal preoccupation.

Weedon defines subjectivity as " the conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions of the individual, her sense of herself, and her ways of understanding her relation to the world.

This understanding of culture confronts anthropologists with two problems: first, how to escape the unconscious bonds of one's own culture, which inevitably bias our perceptions of and reactions to the world, and second, how to make sense of an unfamiliar culture.

" With what Freud called the " disagreeable discovery that on the one hand ( super -) ego and conscious and on the other hand repressed and unconscious are far from coinciding ," Freud took the step in the structural model to " no longer use the term ' unconscious ' in the systematic sense ," and to rename " the mental region that is foreign to the ego ... in future call it the ' id '.

A confused person has their conscious mind busy and occupied, and is very much inclined to draw upon unconscious learnings to make sense of things.

145 or 135 BCE – 86 BCE ), author of Shiji, which suggests the caveat that while many works now considered intentional or unintentional speculative fiction existed before the coining of the genre term, its concept in its broadest sense captures both a conscious and unconscious aspect of human psychology in making sense of the world, reacting to it, and creating imaginary, inventive, and artistic expressions, some of which underlie practical progress through interpersonal influences, social and cultural movements, scientific research and advances, and philosophy of science.

" Edward Conze stated it is important for individual and collective moral growth that we recognise the illusion of our conscience being wholly located in our body ; indeed both our conscience and wisdom expand when we act in an unselfish way and conversely " repressed compassion results in an unconscious sense of guilt.

" The fact that the question guiding research has been so narrowed certainly had something to do with the philosophies of race hygiene and race anthropology at the time-albeit not so much in the sense of conscious, biopolitical instrumentalization of human genetic research as in the sense of an unconscious incorporation of pre-and extra-scientific interests and mentalities into the conceptualization of research.

Without that ( minimal ) cognitive engagement, so Taja Kramberger, there can be no artistic criticism, but only an unconscious and ritualized activity-she calls it a Kercopian literary criticism-that is a ( grinning ) mimesis of common sense and stereotypes about literature and authors.

For example: "$<> a " is the matheme for fantasy in the Lacanian sense, in which "$" refers to the subject as split into conscious and unconscious ( hence the matheme is a barred S ), " a " stands for the object-cause of desire, and "<>" stands for the relationship between the two.

A man in a novel who is defeated in his childhood and condemned by unconscious forces within him to tiredly repeat his earliest failure in love, only makes us a little weary of man ; ;

The rocking, I realized, is the single element in the story that carries the erotic message, the unspoken and unconscious undercurrent that would mar the innocence of a child's fantasy and disturb the effects of the work if it were made explicit.

`` I paint the nothing '', he said once to Franz Kline and myself, `` the nothing that is behind the something, the inexpressible, unpaintable ' tick ' in the unconscious, the ' spirit ' of the moment resting forever, suspended like a huge balloon, in non-time ''.

this is a question which I have no wish to take up -- condensation is a phenomenon in which one finds not a condensed expression of various feelings and ideas which are, at an unconscious level, well sorted out, but rather a condensed expression of feelings and ideas which, even in the unconscious, have yet to become well differentiated from one another.

The point is that in a system such as Fromm's which recognizes unconscious motivations, and which rests on certain ethical absolutes, empirical data can be used to support whatever proposition the writer is urging at the moment.

It is apparently by symbols that the unconscious speaks to the conscious, and the medium has to translate these into meaning.

These unconscious reactions may even be partly constitutive of what makes our judgment a judgment that the landscape is sublime.

The next day, when he is seen walking blindly around no-man's-land, it is discovered that he was only unconscious.

Although these churches hold much in common, their theology differs on whether the intermediate state is unconscious sleep or consciousness, whether the ultimate punishment of the wicked is annihilation or eternal torment, the nature of immortality, whether or not the wicked are resurrected after the millennium, and whether the sanctuary of refers to the one in heaven or one on earth.

Some of this knowledge is in the form of facts that can be explicitly represented, but some knowledge is unconscious and closely tied to the human body: for example, the machine may need to understand how an ocean makes one feel to accurately translate a specific metaphor in the text.

* In The Simpsons episode " Homer at the Bat ", Homer Simpson is hit in the head by a pitch while playing for the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant softball team, rendering him unconscious, but forcing in the winning run.

Should the referee count to ten, then the knocked-down boxer is ruled " knocked out " ( whether unconscious or not ) and the other boxer is ruled the winner by knockout ( KO ).

Finally, belief in the power of such a cabal is an implicit assertion of human dignity – an often unconscious but necessary affirmation that man is not totally helpless, but is responsible, at least in some measure, for his own destiny.

It is also usually associated with an unconscious magical ritual to ward off anxiety engendered by these same women .”

In Dianetics, the unconscious or reactive mind is described as a collection of " mental image pictures ," which contain the recorded experience of past moments of unconsciousness, including all sensory perceptions and feelings involved, ranging from pre-natal experiences, infancy and childhood, even the traumatic feelings associated events from past lives and alien cultures.

The collective unconscious, sometimes known as collective subconscious, is a term of analytical psychology, coined by Carl Jung.

Many Vulcans are skilled in a self-defense technique known as the " Vulcan nerve pinch " or " neck pinch ", which targets a precise location on the neck, rendering the victim unconscious ( sometimes instantly, sometimes after a short delay depending on the subject ).

These poets would often share themes that parallel Schopenhauer's aesthetics and notions of will, fatality and unconscious forces, and used themes of sex ( such as prostitutes ), the city, irrational phenomena ( delirium, dreams, narcotics, alcohol ), and sometimes a vaguely medieval setting.

One of the significant things that such a character implies is the premise that there is a secret, sometimes unconscious, world of aims and methods — one might almost say a secret system of values — that is often much more important than the rational one.

He employed a conscious, but sometimes unconscious, method of arousing the so-called " Rock Music " audience to face " reality ", cathartically.

Archangel does not have complete control over his feathers, which sometimes shoot from his wings against his conscious will in response to his unconscious aggressive drives.

In transactional analysis, the drama triangle is sometimes referred to in the context of mind games-' the unconscious games played by innocent people ' - such as: – Why Don't You / Yes But ; If It Weren't For You ; Why does this Always Happen to Me?

Pauses, sometimes called " dramatic pauses " in this context, can be used to discern subtext or even unconscious content — that is, what the speaker is really thinking about.

In 1975 the women's drive penetrated every layer of society, matured beyond ideology to a new status of general — and sometimes unconscious — acceptance.

Instead, they are sometimes used after a patient is rendered unconscious ( induction of anesthesia ) to facilitate intubation or surgery by paralyzing skeletal muscle.

For example, the unconscious mind sometimes picks up on and relates nonverbal cues about an individual based on how he or she has arranged his or her settings such as his or her home or place of work.

In 2002 Debbie Kruger of Australasian Performing Rights Association ( APRA ) interviewed Kelly and found, " Kelly ’ s attraction to the theatrical, however unconscious, has meant occasionally a song ’ s character will pop up again, sometimes unintentionally ".

Rapid detoxification under general anaesthesia ( sometimes called " ultra-rapid detox ") involves an unconscious patient and requires intubation and external ventilation.

Thus, it is suggested that human beings have developed the unconscious ability to endure pain or sometimes, even relieve pain if it can be more important for survival to gain a larger reward.

Libet finds that conscious volition is exercised in the form of ' the power of veto ' ( sometimes called " free won't "); the idea that conscious acquiescence is required to allow the unconscious buildup of the readiness potential to be actualized as a movement.

She tells them that violence is never the answer, " but sometimes it is ," then chops Val behind the neck, rendering Val unconscious.

It is the protagonist's reluctant ( and usually unconscious ) journey to address this problem that forms the spine of the story, sometimes acting as the MacGuffin to stimulate the plot.

The Superego, sometimes referred to as the morality principle, embodies social constraints and moral obligations during conscious and unconscious states.