It drives me crazy that no one, not even in psychology, correctly defines conscious, unconscious, and subconscious processes.

“Your subconscious mind is trying to help you all the time.”
Jim Harrison, poet and novelist

The unconscious was supposed to be an area somewhere between what we couldn’t think about and what we wouldn’t think about. A kind of controlling, underlying program of uncertain origins.

This was before we knew much about brain physiology. We still don’t know much about brain physiology, but we know enough to discard this early view of the unconscious. It drives me crazy that no one has.

Let’s start here: your unconscious mind is a container whose moving boundaries encompass all that you do without conscious thought. You can penetrate this boundary to some extent, but it takes effort and you cannot get far…

The Unconscious Defined
The Subconscious Defined
Locating Our Minds
Consciousness and Awareness
Different Questions, Different Answers


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