ABSTRACT
In the level of the mind known as the subconscious or unconscious are stored all the ideas to which we have no direct access. Some psychologists say that the memory of every impression which has ever been received by a sense organ is registered here as on a photographic plate, but this opinion is not universally accepted. Between the subconscious and the foreconscious is placed the great main censor-sieve of the mind, and it is this which is meant when the 'censor' is referred to in psychoanalytical literature. This censor-sieve is of the greatest importance in the mental economy, for upon its function the health of the mind is largely dependant. As organisms became more evolved, a higher type of intelligence was necessary for the carrying out of their life activities, and we get mentation of the type that is carried on in the subconscious level, the impulsive mentation of the instincts.
