ABSTRACT
What is the relationship between unconscious and conscious intentionality? Contemporary philosophy of mind treats the contents of conscious intentional mental states as the same kind of thing as the contents of unconscious mental states. According to the standard view that beliefs and desires are propositional attitudes, for example, the contents of these states are propositions, whether or not the states are conscious or unconscious. I dispute this way of thinking of conscious and unconscious content and propose an alternative that helps to explain why the various mental things that are called unconscious deserve that label.
