ABSTRACT
No matter how much psychotherapy or even psychoanalysis we have had, we can never know directly the unconscious contents and processes of mind. We come to know of the existence of the dynamic unconscious and what it is communicating to us in the same way that we come to realize that some internal, organic process has ensued when we walk across the room or read a book or even think a thought. Sigmund Freud arrived at his theory through his practice as a physician, treating patients who were suffering from what was then called "hysteria". Hysterical symptoms were physical conditions which didn't, so far as the medical profession could determine, seem to have origins in any organic disease of the particular body part affected. Freud's theory of psychodynamic process is predicated on the idea that in every one of our conscious utterances or actions or responses there are unconscious dimensions which are also being expressed.
