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CONSCIOUS [1 record]

Record 1 1993-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
CONT

The conscious, often abbreviated to 'Cs', is the system, or structure, in which conscious mental activity obeying the secondary processes occur.

CONT

Perception, reasoning, memory, intention, imagination, and the like make up the activity of the conscious.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
DEF

[...] l'un des trois systèmes de l'appareil psychique tel que S. Freud le concevait dans sa première topique, à côté du préconscient et de l'inconscient [...]

CONT

Le but de l'analyse est la prise de conscience par le sujet de l'origine de sa maladie : «Notre thérapeutique agit en transformant l'inconscient en conscient, et elle n'agit que dans la mesure où elle est à même d'opérer cette transformation».

Spanish

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