The Unconscious (n.) has nothing to do with anatomy. It is a theoretical device inferred from elegance. It is logical rather than biological and there are multiple consciousnesses at work in us, each unknown to us and to one another . ..
The Unconscious (n.) is a separate psychic system with its own distinct processes and mechanisms. It knows no causality or contradiction or logic or negation... it is indifferent to reality. It knows only pleasure.
The Unconscious (n.) is a theoretical device, heuristic, inferred from elegance that brings disconnected ideas into demonstrable connection as concerns acts that arise from who knows where (i.e. Slips of the tongue) or ideas arrived at who knows why (i.e. Dreams).
The Unconscious (n.) is evidenced by slips of the tongue, dreams, and daily ideas that come from we know not where. These would be disconnected if only consciousness was presupposed.
The Unconscious (n.) is immortal in that it knows absolutely nothing of death because it knows nothing that is negative.
The Unconscious (n.) is itself able to produce effects, even some that reach consciousness.
The Unconscious (n.) is just as unknown to us as is the reality of the external world via our our sensory organs.
The Unconscious (n.) is made up, on the one hand, of latent, temporarily unconscious acts which are no different from consciousness, and on the other of repressed acts which if they become conscious would prove very different indeed.
The Unconscious (n.) is mental processes not subject to conscious attention at any given moment.
The Unconscious (n.) is not irrational but on the contrary, total rationalization. Not rational in the sense of instrumental, rational thinking, but rational in the sense of articulated, discursive.
The Unconscious (n.) is simply the idea that we are not the master of our own house.
The Unconscious (n.) was discovered by the poets and philosophers, but what I [freud] discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.
The Unconscious (n.) offers no resistance whatever to the efforts of psychoanalytic treatment. After all, it wants nothing other than to break through the pressure weighing down on it and to force its way either to consciousness or to a discharge through some real action.
The Unconscious (n.) is able to react upon the unconscious of another without passing through the conscious.
The Unconscious (n.) is the space containing all the ideas which are not present to the conscious mind at a particular moment.
The Unconscious (n.) is the 'bed-rock of personality.' Our character and destiny are determined by it. Our own nature is embedded in the unconscious.
The Unconscious (n.) is the entirety of our psychic life.
The Unconscious (n.) is the motives, experiences and desires which cannot be normally brought to the level of consciousness.
The Unconscious (n.) is unknowable directly. It is detected only through its effect, through the distortions it inflicts on consciousness.
The Unconscious (n.) is just a receptacle for all unclean spirits and other odious legacies from the dead past.