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. Cf.:foreconscious.
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pre·con·scious -'kän-chəs adj not present in consciousness but capable of being recalled without encountering any inner resistance or repression
pre·con·scious·ly adv
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pre·con·scious (pre-konґshəs) 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. Cf. conscious and unconscious.Medical dictionary. 2011.