Unconscious might refer to:
In physiology:
- unconsciousness, the lack of consciousness or responsiveness to people and other environmental stimuli
In psychology:
- Unconscious mind, the mind operating well outside the attention of the conscious mind as defined by Sigmund Freud and others
- unconscious, an altered state of consciousness with limited conscious awareness
- not conscious
Famous quotes containing the word unconscious:
“The movements of the eyes express the perpetual and unconscious courtesy of the parties.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The whole point about the true unconscious is that it is all the time moving forward, beyond the range of its own fixed laws or habits. It is no good trying to superimpose an ideal nature upon the unconscious.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)