Sentences with phrase «unconscious feeling which»

Whitehead did not speculate on the precise location of memory within the animal organism, but the most plausible extension of his theory suggests rather that memories are maintained for the soul by other occasions, thereby freeing the soul for its adventure into novelty.2 The way in which the conscious ego draws upon the ocean of unconscious feeling which sustains it may well reflect the way the soul draws upon other living occasions.

As the living person draws upon a wider bodily experience, so the conscious ego, if there should be one at a particular moment, draws upon a vast ocean of unconscious feeling which sustains it.

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He feels that it's important to make sure that employees are aware of their unconscious biases which, left untreated, can lead to breakdowns in effective communication.

It is, then, these unconscious valuations of pure conceptual possibilities which rise to consciousness in God's propositional feelings about the world.

This unconscious feeling would have to retain the experience in all of the richness and individuality with which it is now recalled.

In fact, in spite of his insisting that most actual occasions are unconscious (and that there is much that is unconscious even in that series of actual occasions which constitute our successive mental states), his talk of their experience or feeling of themselves, the influence of their predecessors, and their subjective immediacy seems pointless unless each of them is supposed to feel its own being, in some genuine sense, however dimly, so that there is a truth as to what - it - is - like - being - it.

When we follow Whitehead in thinking of prehensions of noncontiguous occasions — mediated or not — then the number of physical feelings of which I am blankly unconscious is staggering.

Although unconscious feeling is the stuff of nature for Whitehead, his theory of «appearance» is one of the things which brings home the splendor of his philosophy — and that even as this theory emphasizes the fusion of conceptual feeling with physical nature.

Whitehead's fundamental relation of prehension is something broader and more elemental, the generally unconscious emotional feeling by which one bit of life responds to other realities.

Propositions are quasi-physical, in that they are «lures for feeling» at the unconscious physical level, lures which always involve valuation.

Few today would argue that the emotions of which we are conscious exhaust our emotional life or can be explained without reference to the ebb and flow of unconscious feeling.

Her problem was rooted in repressed hostile feelings toward her deceased husband concerning which feelings she felt intense unconscious guilt.

Given his panpsychism or «psychicalism,» Hartshorne holds that the ultimate units of reality are, in the broadest sense, feelings, or that feeling is a «cosmic variable» which can range from the most primitive, unconscious aesthetic reactions of subatomic particles to their environment to the most elaborate conscious experiences of God's.

Finally, by means of past experiences and unconscious memories «the instinctive apprehension of a tone of feeling in ordinary social intercourse» to which Whitehead also appeals is explicable without reference to unmediated feelings.

We can trace the problems of describing LSD as consciousness - expanding to the Cartesian tradition, which conceives consciousness (and its modern partner, the unconscious) as a substance that contains our thoughts, perceptions, and feelings.

7 Interpretation of the unconscious in terms of Whitehead's doctrine of physical feeling affords a means whereby one might reconcile the apparent conflict between the Freudian individual unconscious and the Jungian collective unconscious: the inheritance ingredient in the human event comprises both idiosyncratic elements immediately relevant to the thread of personal identity and universal elements which have lower grades of relevance.

Sodium thiopental was chosen to render the person deeply unconscious and unable to feel the paralysis brought on by the pancuronium bromide, which causes the person to lose the ability to breathe.

Body language is defined as the conscious and unconscious movements and postures by which attitudes and feelings are communicated1.

The paintings were completely abstract and they expressed big themes and emotions — tragedy, despair, the unconscious, angst of every description; feelings that were embodied not through imagery, but the intensity with which the painter got the paint on to the canvas.

The rest of Hibid's display, however, is less convincing: a series of pages of the Guardian newspaper in which areas are painted out to reveal what she appears to see as unconscious racism, specifically — in the way images of black people are used — feels rather dated, if not in its racial paranoia, then certainly in the way Hibid has chosen to express it.

One can divide painting abstracted into two groups: - on the one hand the geometric abstraction characterized at the beginning by the suprematism of Malévitch in Russia and the constructivism of Piet Mondrian in Holland, - and on the other hand, the abstracted expressionnism in which form and color are often posed arbitrarily while expressing the unconscious feelings and emotions of the painter.

The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow - men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed.»

The purpose in this short paper is to question the Collaborative Couple Therapy notion of leading - edge feeling — the idea that at a given moment there's a single such feeling rather than a nexus of feelings or, in psychodynamic terms, conscious feelings underneath which lurk hierarchies of unconscious feelings.

To complicate matters, these associations are happening on an unconscious level — meaning your «feeling memories» are disembodied from the original trauma from way back when, which makes it easy to wrongly assume that the mountain of emotions you're experiencing is the result of whatever your partner just said or did.

Therefore, instead of seeing this resistance to the «all - bad» parent as intentional parental alienation or abuse which justifies a child feeling estranged from a parent, the driving force appears to be much more of an unconscious outgrowth of insecure or disorganized attachments which the child is trying to resolve based on the most fundamental biological drives for survival.

The goal of Imago Relationship Therapy is to align our conscious mind (which usually wants happiness and good feelings) with the agenda of the unconscious mind (which wants healing and growth).

Reflecting on triggers (our own thoughts and feelings — in a gentle way) will eventually help you understand the true source of your trigger, which are unconscious seeds based on conditioning.

Imago Relationship Theory teaches that romantic love, which you experience at the beginning of your relationship, is the way our unconscious seeks to restore the feeling of joyful aliveness we felt as a young child.