English Dictionary

automatism

IPA（発音記号）

/ɔːˈtɒmətɪzəm/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

Acting automatically or involuntarily. / The power of initiating vital processes from within the cell, organ, or organism, independent of external stimulus.

日本語の意味

無意識的または自動的に行われる行動・作用 / 外部からの刺激に依存せず、細胞や器官、生物内部で生命活動を始動させる働き

The defendant claimed that his actions during the incident were the result of automatism.

被告は、その事件での行為が自動行為、つまり無意識の行動の結果であったと主張した。

意味（1）

Acting automatically or involuntarily.

意味（2）

The power of initiating vital processes from within the cell, organ, or organism, independent of external stimulus.

意味（3）

The doctrine that animals are automata, operating according to mechanical laws.

意味（4）

(psychology) An action performed subconsciously, without any apparent direction from the mind; a thought which appears spontaneously in one's consciousness.

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.

意味（5）

(art) A surrealist painting technique whereby one attempts to move the brush, pen etc. without conscious control over it.

Overcoming the gravity of representation and the figurative, automatism and acquired reflexes, she mixes brute force and translucid emotions to paint an ontological, disquieting, enigmatic human figure free from artifice, universal in its expression.

automatisms （ plural ）