My Unpopular Opinion about The Unconscious [1]

Does the word “unconscious” lack real meaning?

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Was Freud inventing the unconscious to fit his theory or describing the territory? Was he inferring the existence of the unconscious with a bias around his theories? Is this a fruitless activity of semantics to re-name the unconscious, replace a word that no longer describes the territory? Or is there a real meaning behind a radical redefinition of what we pay attention to and that which we don’t attend?

Attention

While attention is not an organ of human perception, it is a governor or controller of how different modes of sensory awarenesses apply to something happening in our experience.

The extent of information that continually bombards our sensory fields can only be processed through how we direct our attention. The amount of attention I can apply to phenomena happening is relatively small compared to the amount of information that is presented. Inferred: there is a larger amount of data of which I am unaware.

The Attended

Once we gain the skills of the spoken word as children, we gain prejudice and bias. Bias becomes part of what is attended and reinforced through thought and emotional pairing, and emotional and body pairing. Prejudices and…