The Unconscious _ Freud

PSYCHOANALYSIS has taught us that the essence of the process of repression lies, not in abrogating or annihilating the idea- tional presentation of an instinct, but in withholding it from becoming conscious. We then say of the idea that it is in a state of “unconsciousness,” of being not apprehended by the conscious mind, and we can produce convincing proofs to show that unconsciously it can also produce effects, even of a kind that finally penetrate to consciousness. Everything that is repressed must remain unconscious, but at the very outset let us state that the repressed does not comprise the whole un- conscious. The unconscious has the greater compass: the repressed is a part of the unconscious.