The Unconscious — What Drives Us Without Our Knowledge
The unconscious is not a metaphor. It is a functional reality — the part of the mind that operates outside of conscious awareness and exerts a continuous, often decisive influence on what a person thinks, feels, chooses, and does.
Most of what happens in the mind happens outside of consciousness. This is not a peripheral observation. It is the central insight of depth psychology, and it has been substantiated by more than a century of clinical experience and, more recently, by neuroscience.