automatism
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ɔːˈtɒmətɪzəm/
automatism
- Acting automatically or involuntarily.
- The power of initiating vital processes from within the cell, organ, or organism, independent of external stimulus.
- The doctrine that animals are automata, operating according to mechanical laws.
- (psychology) An action performed subconsciously, without any apparent direction from the mind; a thought which appears spontaneously in one's consciousness.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 200:
- generalising this phenomenon, Mr Myers has given the name of automatism, sensory or motor, emotional or intellectual, to this whole sphere of effects, due to ‘uprushes’ into the ordinary consciousness of energies originating in the subliminal parts of the mind.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 200:
- (art) A surrealist painting technique whereby one attempts to move the brush, pen etc. without conscious control over it.
- French: automatisme
- Italian: automatismo
- Spanish: automatismo
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