Ideas across traditions · consciousness · Modern European
unconscious
Works in 3 traditions beyond Modern European attest this concept, on 134 cited pages. Translators have rendered it as “subconscious”, “unbewusste”; a link through a rendering is marked as such, because another translator chose differently.
Also under: “subconscious” · “unbewusste”
In other traditions
Ordered by the earliest work in each tradition that attests the concept. Within a tradition, works run from earliest to latest by conventional composition date.
Indian
- 350 CEPatañjali, Yoga Sūtra (with Vyāsa bhāṣya)same word and a translator’s rendering
- unconsciousum, motionless, poised the one against the other, counterbalancing and neutralising each other, so that Matter is calledAn Introduction to Yoga, 1908, p. 56 · flagged as a term by the translator
- unconsciousas the wrong one. I came back and waited, missing my boat—which was at another part of the pier—because of the automaticA Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga, 1906, p. 201 · original word kept by the translator
- 350 CEĪśvarakṛṣṇa, Sāṃkhya-kārikāsame word
Theosophical & Modern Esoteric
- 1885Carl du Prel, Die Philosophie der Mystik (dream and the transcendental subject)same word and a translator’s rendering
- 1891Papus, occult-science treatisessame word
- 1903Ramacharaka (Atkinson), Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophya translator’s rendering
- 1906Ramacharaka (Atkinson), A Series of Lessons in Raja Yogasame word and a translator’s rendering
- 1908Besant, An Introduction to Yogasame word
Japanese
- 1927D.T. Suzuki — Zen popularising worksa translator’s rendering
At home in Modern European
- 1860Fechner, Elemente der Psychophysiksame word and a translator’s rendering
- unconsciouss. So long as the stimulus or stimulus difference remains below the threshold, the sensation of it remains, as they say,Elements of Psychophysics, Vol. I, 1860, p. 260 · flagged as a term by the translator
- unconsciouse added to the assets just to bring about the zero state. We find ourselves in a completely analogous case regarding theElements of Psychophysics, Volume II, 1860, p. 53 · flagged as a term by the translator
- 1869Von Hartmann, Philosophie des Unbewusstensame word and a translator’s rendering
- 1869New Thought and mind-cure (Evans, Wood, Atkinson, Coué)a translator’s rendering
- 1885Du Prel, Die Philosophie der Mystiksame word and a translator’s rendering
- 1895Dresser, The Power of Silencesame word and a translator’s rendering
- 1902William James, The Varieties of Religious Experiencea translator’s rendering
- 1902Jung, Zur Psychologie und Pathologie sogenannter occulter Phänomene, and early psychiatric writingssame word and a translator’s rendering
- 1911Evelyn Underhill, Mysticism / Practical Mysticism / The Mystic Waysame word
- 1912Jung, Wandlungen und Symbole der Libidosame word and a translator’s rendering
- 1912Jung, Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido; Psychology of the Unconscioussame word and a translator’s rendering
- 1913Underhill, The Mystic Way / Practical Mysticismsame word
- 1914Silberer, Probleme der Mystik und ihrer Symboliksame word
- 1921Jung, Psychologische Typensame word and a translator’s rendering
- unconscious — the part of the mind inaccessible to the conscious selfa basis for sensation. The connection with the object is pushed to the extreme. Because of this, however, theПсихологические типы (Psychological Types, Russian translation), 1924, p. 49 · flagged as a term by the translator
- Unbewussteattitude in every respect, the existence of which leads to open conflict. The fact that the attitude of the unconsciousPsychological Types, 1921, p. 469 · original word kept by the translator
- unconsciousike Prometheus, whose whole being comes near to extinction. This means that his libido has entirely passed over into thePsychological Types, 1923, p. 248 · flagged as a term by the translator
Evidence gate. A work is listed only where a translator marked the word as a term with a gloss, or kept the original word beside the English, on at least one page of a held edition. Vocabulary lists and keywords alone do not count: in a Greek vocabulary list ἡσυχία is the ordinary word for quiet. Up to 3 pages are shown per work, preferring those with a gloss. The vocabulary was built 2026-09-11; the graph on 2026-09-13.