ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors discusses the post-Freudian developments that all converge in the recognition of still unconscious area of the mind, namely a descriptively unconscious area in the id that is hindered from becoming conscious, but through processes other than repression. Before the authors carry out any further investigations into the specific details of the work of contextualization, it is important to decide where the core mental process should be placed in relation to the unconscious. Doing so is complicated by the various senses in which the word is used throughout the development of Freud's own metapsychology. For Wilfred Bion, repression, and with it the establishment of a particular area within the mind for thoughts that are blocked from consciousness, is only possible once the mind has reached a certain relatively advanced level of structural sophistication.
