I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
knock sb unconscious/cold/senseless (= hit someone so hard that they fall unconscious )
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Simon could knock a man unconscious with one punch to the jaw.
render sb/sth impossible/harmless/unconscious etc
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He was rendered almost speechless by the news.
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The blow to his head was strong enough to render him unconscious.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
desire
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In Western society, adults may play with money as an acceptable substitute for the unconscious desire to play with faeces.
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In practice, of course, it would be extremely hard to establish any such unconscious desires in the complainant.
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Another contributing aspect of enjoying school in my opinion is an unconscious desire to learn.
level
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During pregnancy and the months immediately following birth, men frequently identify at an unconscious level with their partners.
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A changing array of signifiers at both the conscious and the unconscious levels will effect changes in the signified.
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An analogy might be the lip-reading that we do at an unconscious level .
mind
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Adler paid less attention to the unconscious mind and more to goal-directed therapy.
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Your unconscious mind works out many of your conflicts in dreams, and generally prepares you for the challenges of the day.
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We often ignore intuition, when it's possible that intuitive responses are our past experiences lodged in our unconscious minds .
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We should not forget our animal origins or our brain's capacity to malfunction or the hidden potential of the unconscious mind .
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At the deepest level, if you want to explore your unconscious mind be prepared to spend time and money.
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Edward suggested that the memory might be in your unconscious mind even though you can not remember it.
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Give his unconscious mind a chance and it usually showed his feet which way to go.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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unconscious desires
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Billy was unconscious for two days after the accident.
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His comments were an unconscious insult to Irish people.
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Many women are the victims of unconscious discrimination by men.
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The unconscious man was carefully lifted onto a stretcher.
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the unconscious mind
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There was a woman lying unconscious on the floor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Any purpose there is will not be found within the physical structure of unconscious entities.
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The subordinate and superior then align with each other in mutual satisfaction of their unconscious needs.
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They called an ambulance when Clare became unconscious and her lips turned blue, but by then it was too late.
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With an unconscious sigh of her own, she touched her fingers to her cheek, just as he had done.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
collective
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He came into existence to fulfil a need arising from the collective unconscious .
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An omission this flagrant points to something deeper in our collective unconscious .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A heavy concentration of the drug may produce dizziness or even unconsciousness.
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She managed to crawl into a shed, and then lapsed into unconsciousness.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And most recently, Freud eliminated the discontinuity between the rational world of the ego and the irrational world of the unconscious .
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Assault charge: A man who is alleged to have knocked a police woman unconscious was bailed by Darlington magistrates yesterday.
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More extreme retreats to the unconscious are the stuff of art-historical legend.
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The anniversary had remained trapped in the unconscious , never reflected on.
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This eclectic philosophical mixture underlies his account of the unconscious .
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Where patients were brought in unconscious , and therefore unable to disclose their faith, a simple method was followed.