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Unconscious vs Freudian - What's the difference?

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unconscious

English

(Unconscious mind)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not awake; having no awareness.
  • She lay unconscious on the floor.
  • Without directed thought or awareness.
  • My sudden fright was an unconscious response.
  • (sports) engaged in skilled performance without conscious control.
  • * 1998 , Charles Rosen, The Cockroach Basketball League , page 144
  • Sam is unconscious , filling it, drilling it from every conceivable angle. Lem is awful and Cooper seems confused. Josh shoots too often.
  • * 1999 , Joseph Leininger, Terry Whalin, Lessons from the Pit: A Successful Veteran of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange , page 10
  • "I was unconscious ," the basketball player gushes. "It seemed like everything I threw up toward the basket went straight in."
  • * 2002 , Alexander Wolff, Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure , page 292
  • Someone who has reeled off a string of baskets will say, "I was unconscious," as if he were following the Zen injunction to be mindful while suspending thought.

    Synonyms

    * insentient, oblivious, out of it, out on one's feet, unaware * (skilled performance without conscious control) in the zone, on a roll

    Noun

    (singulare tantum)
  • (psychology) The unconscious mind
  • freudian

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relating to or influenced by the Austrian neurologist (1856-1939) and his methods of psychoanalysis.
  • (psychoanalysis) Susceptible to analysis in terms of unconscious thoughts or desires.
  • Derived terms

    * antifreudian * prefreudian * postfreudian

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A follower of Freud or his methods.
  • Derived terms

    * Freudian slip * Freudianism