Subconscious

In psychology, the subconscious is the part of consciousness that is not currently in focal awareness.

The subconscious and psychology

The word "subconscious" represents an anglicized version of the French subconscient as coined by the psychologist Pierre Janet (1859-1947), who argued that underneath the layers of critical-thought functions of the conscious mind lay a powerful awareness that he called the subconscious mind.

In the strict psychological sense, the adjective is defined as "operating or existing outside of consciousness".

Locke and Kristof write that there is a limit to what can be held in conscious focal awareness, an alternative storehouse of one's knowledge and prior experience is needed, which they label the subconscious.

The subconscious and psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud first used the term "subconscious" on 1893 and in the 1895 "Studies on Hysteria" and then denied, he argues on 1926:

In Freud's opinion the unconscious mind has a will and purpose of its own that cannot be known to the conscious mind (hence the term "unconscious") and is a repository for socially unacceptable ideas, wishes or desires, traumatic memories, and painful emotions put out of mind by the mechanism of psychological repression.

Subconscious (song)

"Subconscious" is the second single by American solo artist and singer Samantha James from her second album, Subconsious.

Music video

A music video was shot for "Subconscious" and was released as a video montage on Samantha James' official Om Records page.

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Subconscious (album)

Subconscious is the second studio-album from American singer Samantha James under the label Om Records. The album was released on June 22, 2010, featuring the first single "Waves of Change" produced by Kaskade. Samantha confirmed on her Facebook profile that a music video for the track Subconscious will be shot in Los Angeles soon.

Background

Samantha considers this record as a miracle since she was going through a lot at that time with her father's death from cancer and a bad breakup. She then gained strength from those painful losses to write a new album with sad but also positive songs on it. That's why the album is titled "Subconscious" because "the songs wrote themselves subconsciously". Samantha also said that she was really concerned writing new songs because she really wanted to satisfy her audience. But because of what she went through it also worked as an inspiration. She then started to work with Sebastian Morton again, but he got occupied by other project and so Samantha got in touch with junior high school friend Shane Drasin.