Ask the doctor: Unconscious or subconscious: Which is the correct term?
Since Freud, generations of psychoanalysts have continued to debate the function of the unconscious, or how and why certain mental contents get repressed. The way that an analyst understands the unconscious often is instrumental in how he or she tries to fulfill one of the central aims of the "talking cure," which is to help a patient achieve relief by making the unconscious conscious.
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