Word: subconsciouses
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One horrifying image recurrently surfaced in her mind during introductory work on a novel, or at the end of a piece. Bell notices that "the fin rising on a wide bland sea," was both a signal of disaster and an admonition that new ideas for another novel were quickening within...
America has endured a transformation, in many ways a radical transformation. In sum, the experience may well amount to a kind of loss of innocence. It demonstrated, for one thing, that American technology does not always work; all the F-111s and "people-sniffers" and laser-guided bombs and helicopters...
Even in fairly major details. Miller has departed from the precedent laid down by the Bible and Paradise Lost. Introducing Freudian psychology, he suggests that God's subconscious created the Tree of Knowledge and that Eve fell into temptation out of penis envy. He also implies that Cain was actually...
Whether this phenomenon is triggered by fire or bulldozer, it is manifested in flower, fruit, cone or propagating root. But be it relatively mechanistic or biologically complex, it elicits the same response from man's subconscious - when threatened by disaster, life sees to its own perpetuity.
Because man "is frightened to death by the specter of death," he tries to pretend that it does not exist, at least not for him; in the subconscious mind, "it is other people who die." Studying 350 terminal patients, Weisman found that denial can take many forms. Often a gravely...