The unconscious has become fashionable, and hence grossly overrated.  That is, by far the larger percentage of what is called unconscious nowadays is not unconscious, but preconscious.  The patient, however, will oblige the therapist who is looking for 'unconscious' material by advancing preconscious material with a spurious label.  This is easily verified by asking the patient, 'Was it really unconscious, or was it just vaguely conscious?'  True unconscious material (for example, the original castration fear and the original Oedipal rage) is truly unconscious, and not vaguely conscious.

• therapy
• transactional analysis
• unconscious
• preconscious
• will
• fear