subception

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English

Noun

subception (uncountable)

  1. (psychology) An unconscious perceptual defense of applying strategies to prevent a troubling stimulus from entering consciousness.
    • 2012, William F. O'Neill, George D. Demos, Philosophical Psychology: A New Frontier in Education and Therapy, p. 18:
      Since the internal environment of memory is selective on the basis of prior emotional reinforcements of experience, internal subception of images, ideas and such is necessarily very complicated.