ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with an historical inquiry in which the members of the original San Francisco Social Psychiatry Seminar, founded by Eric Berne, were asked about their recollections and opinions about Berne’s shift from the language of the unconscious, which had been present in his initial writings on transactional analysis. I go on to examine the consequences for transactional analysis theory of Berne’s change in language, arguing for a reconceptualization of unconscious experience within transactional analysis.
