When her future husband encounters her in a Paris cafe and asks her about the book she is reading (it is by Nathalie Sarraute), Nina replies: "It's about trying to capture and transform into language the manifestations of the inner self, the vibrations and the tremors of feelings on the threshold of consciousness.
A number of scholars argue that goal-directed planning happens below the threshold of consciousness and that as a result, components of action are organized in a more hierarchical fashion [12, 31].
His experiences of occupation, living under totalitarian regimes and genocide (he lived in Warsaw during the second world war) gave him "an almost physical disgust" for nationalism and a deep conviction "that as long as we live, we must lift ourselves over new thresholds of consciousness".
The tripartite cosmos was re-mythologized into a tripartite structure of the personality the superego (the restrictive social regulations that enable man to live as a social being), the ego (the conscious aspects of man), and the id, or libido (a "seething, boiling cauldron of desire that seeks to erupt from beneath the threshold of consciousness").
Fine draws together research that shows people who pride themselves on their lack of bias persist in making stereotypical associations just below the threshold of consciousness.
Barthelme shared the surrealists' faith that, by an intuition operating below the threshold of consciousness — he called this the faculty of "not-knowing" — the juxtaposition of unlike to unlike could trigger a new kind of awareness, one that is normally buried under the predictability of conventional usage.
Under those conditions, the categorization of visual words and numbers can lead to the covert activation of motor cortex even when those stimuli are masked and presented below the threshold of consciousness [ 10, 11].
"At that moment, I suddenly realized that I was going beyond the threshold of consciousness," Senna said.
It is true that some ideas may be driven below the threshold of consciousness; but the excluded ideas continue to exist in an unconscious form and tend, on the removal of obstacles (as through education), to return spontaneously to consciousness.
For example, important events (e.g., the presence or absence of bystanders) may have been forgotten, sequences may be reversed in memory, and all information that was processed below the threshold of consciousness cannot be retrieved from memory.
