Meaning of anticognitive | Babel Free

Definitions

Opposing or counteracting cognition.

Examples

“[…]the culture emphasizes anticognitive and anti-intellectual currents which are rooted in a return to instinctual modes.”

“Many authors – in particular, Meltzer and Bion – have described clinical situations in which the mind, where wholly or relatively incapable of tolerating psychic pain, performs destructive, or anticognitive, operations[…]”

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