The Handbook of Jungian Psychology: Theory, Practice and Applications

by Renos K. Papadopoulos

here is Jung’s later, more developed definition of the unconscious as originally conceived in psychoanalysis: So defined, the unconscious depicts an extremely fluid state of affairs: everything of which I know, but of which I am not at the moment thinking; everything of which I was once conscious but have now forgotten; everything perceived by my senses, but not noted by my conscious mind; everything which, involuntarily and without paying attention to it, I feel, think, remember, want, and do; all the future things that are taking shape in me and will sometime come to consciousness: all this is the content of the unconscious. These contents are all more or less capable, so to speak, of consciousness, or were once conscious and may become conscious again the next moment … To this marginal phenomenon … there also belong the Freudian findings we have already noted. (Jung 1946: par. 382)