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=Freudian Dictionary= <blockquote>The oldest and best meaning of the word "unconscious" is the descriptive one; we call "unconscious" any mental process the existence of which we are obliged to assume-because, for instance, we infer it in some way from its effects-but of which we are not directly aware .... If we want to be more accurate, we should modify the statement by saying that we call a process "unconscious" when we have to assume that it was active at a certain time, although at that time we knew nothing about it.<ref>{{NILP}} Ch. 3</ref></blockquote> <blockquote>Certainly, large portions of the ego and super-ego can remain unconscious, are, in fact, normally unconscious. That means to say that the individual knows nothing of their contents and that it requires an expenditure of effort to make him conscious of them. It is true, then, that ego and conscious, repressed and unconscious do not coincide.<ref>{{TopNILP}}inconscient]]Ch. 3</ref></blockquote> ===Unconscious and Preconscious===<blockquote>There are ''two kinds of unconscious'', which have not as yet been distinguished by psychologists. Both are unconscious in the psychological sense; but in our sense the first, which we call ''Ucs''., is likewise ''incapable of consciousness''; whereas the second we call ''Pcs''. because its excitations, [[German]]: after the observance of certain rules, are capable of reaching consciousness; perhaps not before they have again undergone censorship, but nevertheless regardless of the ''Ucs''. ''system''. The fact that in order to attain consciousness the excitations must pass through an unalterable series, a succession of instances, as is betrayed by the changes produced in them by the censorship, has enabled us to describe them by analogy in spatial terms. We described the relations of the two systems to each other and to consciousness by saying that the system ''Pcs''. is like a screen between the system ''Ucs''. and consciousness. The system ''Pcs''[[Unbewußte. not only bars access to consciousness, but also controls the access to voluntary motility, and has control of the emission of a mobile cathectic energy, a portion of which is familiar to us as attention.<ref>{{IoD}} Ch. 7</ref></blockquote> ===UNCONSCIOUS MENTAL PROCESSES, TIMELESSNESS OF===<blockquote>We have found by experience that unconscious mental processes are in themselves "timeless." That is to say to begin with: they are not arranged chronologically, time alters nothing in them, nor can the idea of time be applied to them. <ref>{{BPP}} Ch. 4</ref></blockquote> {{BottomFreudian Dictionary}} =Below=
==Sigmund Freud==
