ABSTRACT
The unconscious has the wider compass: the repressed is a part of the unconscious. Sigmund Freud's own "structural theory" suggested that not only id (the cauldron of "instinctual representatives") but also portions of ego and superego were unconscious. Mention should also be made of C. Bollas's suggestion that just as there are repression-derived unconscious elements, there are reception-based unconscious elements. The aim of such "reception" is to allow the unconscious development of ideas without the impingement of consciousness. Freud's warning that in making the unconscious conscious one must not disregard the patient's need to not know is heeded by psychoanalysts of all persuasions. In "The unconscious", however, the expression "metapsychology" appeared in a far more nuanced manner. Freud proposed that in order to evolve a deeper understanding of mental phenomena, one must go beyond what is conscious and view the underlying material from many different angles.
