ABSTRACT

When I refer to the term consciousness, I mean it to include the entire range of mental processing, reflective and non-reflective, from total immersion in an event or blind experience of emotion through to active and articulated description, knowledge and conscious control. If we want to hold on to the notion of the unconscious, it would have to be found a place within this wider human capacity for consciousness. The usefulness of the concept of the unconscious has been surpassed by neuroscience a long time ago. It seems unhelpful to hold on to such a concept when it clearly conjures up so much

uncritical and unexamined prejudice and is often confused with other aspects of mental processing.