At the same time, the characteristically human expressions of this consciousness are not to be restricted to the mechanistic intellect (Verstand) of the Enlightenment, but now encompass a much vaster range of potentials, from the sub- or unconscious (a term that enters the language in this period) to the superconscious, from the creative imagination favored by the Romantics to the intellectual intuition or speculative Reason (Vernunft) of the Idealists.
