Explore: Unconscious Processes

theories, the unconscious mind (or the unconscious) is the part of the psyche that is not available to introspection. Although these processes exist beneath

event—including perception and unconscious processes—may be described as a form of thought. The term can also denote not the process itself, but the resulting

mental processes that monitor and regulate other mental processes. Classifications also distinguish between conscious and unconscious processes and between

determined by unconscious processes. The basic assumption of Freud's psychoanalytic view of the person is an energy system in which all mental processes are considered

counter to most research on unconscious processing conducted over the last 40 years, which has found unconscious processes to be characterized by simple

including both conscious processes, through which an individual is aware of external and internal circumstances, and unconscious processes, which can influence

as an active and essential component in the processes of decision making. Historically, the unconscious mind has been viewed as the source of dreams

The adaptive unconscious, first coined by social psychologist Daniel Wegner in 2002, is described as a set of mental processes that is able to affect

Psychoanalysis is a set of theories and techniques of research to discover unconscious processes and their influence on conscious thought, emotion and behaviour

broadcast to a multitude of unconscious cognitive brain processes, which may be called receiving processes. Other unconscious processes, operating in parallel