self-suˈggestion
[self- 3 b.]
1. A suggestion arising of its own accord.
| 1892 J. Tait Mind in Matter 247 Although sin overflows so as to embrace others besides the guilty, the idea of substitution by blood-shedding would scarcely come as a self-suggestion. |
2. Suggestion to oneself; the voluntary fixing in one's own mind some idea in order that it may afterwards operate subconsciously or automatically.
| 1893 A. Lang in Folk-Lore IV. 433 But I am not my own dupe. Others may be more fortunate or more amenable to self-suggestion. 1899 Two Worlds 6 Jan. 2/1 Self-suggestion will, I believe, prove a great aid in counteracting many of the evils of life. 1903 F. W. H. Myers Human Pers. I. p. xxi, Self-suggestion..means a suggestion conveyed by the subject himself from one stratum of his personality to another, without external intervention. |
So self-suˈggestive a.; self-suˈggester, one who performs self-suggestion.
| 1848 Bailey Festus 248 Who taking pleasure in all reason find The science of self-suggestive wisdom in themselves. 1903 F. W. H. Myers Human Pers. I. 139 Some self-suggestive machinery by which the patient cures his toothache himself. Ibid. 213 The task is quite as difficult for the self-suggester as for the hypnotist. |