nethermind

plural netherminds

1. The lower or subconscious mind.

   This is how he does it as a writer: he runs everything past his innocence, his nethermind, his first soul. He runs everything past his soul.

   2001, Martin Amis, Experience: A Memoir

   2 more examples

   The truth perhaps - the true truth - is not so much that the mask is hollow as that I don't care to look behind it at the nystagmic flicker of image image image that the nethermind is broadcasting to the faulty receptor of the overmind.

   1969, Thomas M. Disch, Camp concentration

   While the mesmerists were uncovering the ethereum through their patients' netherminds, measurable electromagnetism was also beginning to radically reconfigure the official scientific picture of the cosmos.

   2004, Erik Davis, TechGnosis