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===Sigmund Freud===
Although the term "[[unconscious]]" had been used by writers prior to [[Freud]], it acquires a completely original meaning in his work, in which it constitutes the single most important concept.
[[Freud]] distinguished between two uses of the term "[[unconscious]]."<ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|The Unconscious]]." 1915e. {{SE}} XIV, 161.</ref>
As an ''adjective'', it simply refers to mental processes that are not the [[subject ]] of [[conscious]] attention at a given moment.
As a noun (the [[unconscious]]; [[Ger]]. ''[[das Unbewußte]]noun''), it designates one of the psychical systems which [[Freud]] described in his first theory of [[psyche|mental]] [[structure]] (the "[[unconscious|topographical model]]").
According to this theory, the [[psyche|mind]] is divided into three systems or "psychical localities," the [[conscious]] ('''Cs'''), the [[preconscious]] ('''Pcs''') and the [[unconscious]] ('''Ucs''').
