High on the long list of things to which Freud gave a bad name is the unconscious. Of course, Freud neither invented nor discovered the unconscious — it is a concept almost as old as culture — though contemporary folk psychology credits him with doing both. He did, however, make the unconscious central to his structure of the mind. For Freud, the unconscious is both sump and vent to our self-awareness: it is the place to which we flush our unwanted mental matter, and the realm out of which this matter seeps back, troubling and destabilising us.
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