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anoetic

adj.

1. not involving or subject to intellectual or cognitive processes. Emotions are sometimes considered anoetic.

2. describing a state of knowledge or memory in which there is no consciousness of knowing or remembering. Anoetic consciousness is a corresponding kind of “unknowing knowing” in which one is aware of external stimuli but not of interpreting them. [defined by Endel Tulving]

3. lacking the capacity for understanding or concentrated thought. This meaning, originally applied to intellectual disability, is no longer common. Compare autonoetic; noetic. —anoesis n.

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separation–individuation

n. a developmental phase in which the infant gradually differentiates himself or herself from the mother, develops awareness of his or her separate identity, and attains relatively autonomous status. [defined by Hungarian-born U.S. child psychoanalyst Margaret Schönberger Mahler (1897–1985)]