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preconscious
[pre-kon´shus]the part of the mind that is not in immediate awareness but can be consciously recalled with effort, one of the systems of Freud's topographic model of the mind.
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pre·con·scious
(prē-kon'shŭs),In psychoanalysis, one of the three divisions of the psyche according to Freud's topographic psychology, the other two being the conscious and unconscious; includes all ideas, thoughts, past experiences, and other memory impressions that with effort can be consciously recalled. Compare: foreconscious.
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preconscious
(prē-kŏn′shəs)n.
The memories or feelings that are not part of one's immediate awareness but that can be recalled through conscious effort.
pre·con′scious adj.
pre·con′scious·ly adv.
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preconscious
Psychiatry adjective Referring to thoughts that are not in immediate awareness but that can be recalled by conscious effortMcGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
pre·con·scious
(prē-kon'shŭs)psychoanalysis One of the three divisions of the psyche, the other two being the conscious and unconscious; includes all ideas, thoughts, past experiences, and other memory impressions that with effort can be consciously recalled.
Compare: foreconscious
Compare: foreconscious
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