anticognitive
adjEtymology From anti- + cognitive.
1
Opposing or counteracting cognition.
- […]the culture emphasizes anticognitive and anti-intellectual currents which are rooted in a return to instinctual modes.1997, Patrick Murray, editor, Reflections on Commercial Life:
- 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[…]2006, Antonio Imbasciati, Constructing a Mind, page 117: