subconsciousness

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“Because when I started writing this book, absolutely, in my deep subconsciousness, I judged these women. I thought, how on earth could they not have known what their husbands were doing?”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

“It’s like some national subconsciousness that resurfaces,” said Geremie R. Barmé, a scholar in New Zealand who studies dissent in China.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022

One especially sumptuous song, “Enzo Gabriel,” cites the most popular name for newborn boys in Brazil in 2018 and 2019 as evidence of a national hivemind, or maybe even a collective subconsciousness.

From Washington Post • Oct. 22, 2021

The line could hardly describe Kaufman better, all the more so because it’s spoken by a character that may or may not be a figment of subconsciousness.

From Washington Times • Sep. 2, 2020

The ordinary consciousness of man will then have been transmuted into the subconsciousness, of which it had always been a pale reflection.

From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by Wentz, W. Y. Evans