Type dyn.pr. Subconscious ↔ Preconscious

immediate responses

Built into the mind is an instinctual base of reactions and attitudes that cannot be altered but merely compensated for. When a story's problem revolves around the unsuitability of someone's essential nature to a given situation or environment, the central issue is the Pre-Conscious. The solution lies in the character conditioning himself to either hold his tendencies in check or develop methods of enhancing areas in which he is naturally weak in reason, ability, emotion, or intellect.

syn. unthinking responses, immediate responses, impulse, impulsive response, instinctive response, innate response, reflex