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<blockquote>The term 'conscious' is, to start with, a purely descriptive one, resting on a perception of the most direct and certain character. Experience shows, next, that a mental element (for instance, an idea) is not as a rule permanently conscious. On the contrary, a state of consciousness is characteristically very transitory; an idea that is conscious now is no longer so a moment later, although it can become so again under certain conditions that are easily brought about.<ref>{{F}} "[[Sigmund Freud:Bibliography|Consciousness and the Unconscious]]." p. 10</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>We obtain our concept of the unconscious, therefore, from the theory of repression. The repressed serves us as a prototype of the unconscious. We see, however, that we have two kinds of unconscious-that which is latent but capable of becoming conscious, and that which is repressed and not capable of becoming conscious in the ordinary way. This piece of insight into mental dynamics cannot fail to affect terminology and description. That which is latent, and only unconscious in the descriptive and not in the dynamic sense, we call preconscious; the term unconscious we reserve for the dynamically unconscious repressed, so that we now have three terms, conscious (Cs), preconscious (Pcs), and unconscious (Ucs), which are no longer purely descriptive in sense. The Pcs is presumably a great deal closer</blockquote>
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[[Freud]] is credited with the discovery of the "[[unconscious]]", the concept of which lies at the center of [[psychoanalysis]].
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Freud recognized that the term ‘unconscious’ was better used as a descriptive adjective rather than as a topographical noun.
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