ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis is one of the controversial frontiers of psychiatry and of science in general. Psychoanalysis and psychiatry in general have been unique among all scientific disciplines and methodologies in that they have been dependent almost exclusively upon auditory data. The goal of analytic exploration is to illuminate the concurrent roles of conscious, preconscious and unconscious processes in human thought, feeling, purpose, behavior, and relationships. The idea that sequences of psychological events can exert dynamic influences on one another seems at first thought to do violence to all scientific concepts of the world, and to the laws governing the conservation of mass and energy. In the struggle to explore the inner space of human psychology and human personality, the basic challenge is the clarification of the interplay among and the respective roles of three “levels” or systems of concurrent processes.
