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=Critical Dictionary=
Drawing on the [[linguistics]] of [[Saussure]] and [[Jakobson]]'s work on 'aphasia', [[Lacan]] argues that [[symptom]]s and [[unconscious]] [[formation]]s such as the [[dream-work]] display the same formal properties as the rhetorical devices of [[metaphor]]/[[metonymy]], which he likens to the mechanisms of [[condensation]] and [[displacement]].
=Quotes=
<blockquote>The division of mental life into what is conscious and what is unconscious is the fundamental premise on which psycho-analysis is based; and this division alone makes it possible for it to understand pathological mental processes, which are as common as they are important, and to co-ordinate them scientifically. Stated once more in a different way: psycho-analysis cannot accept the view that consciousness is the essence of mental life, but is obliged to regard consciousness as one property of mental life, which may co-exist along with its other properties or may be absent.<ref>{{F}} "[[Sigmund Freud:Bibliography|Consciousness and the Unconscious]]." pp. 9-10</blockquote>
Consciousness
<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>
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