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Record 1 1993-11-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clinical Psychology
DEF

As a noun, the unconscious (Ucs.) relates to one of the dynamic systems described by Freud (1915) in his early topographic theory of the psychic apparatus.

CONT

experience which was once conscious, but was subsequently rejected, as the "personal unconscious".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie clinique
CONT

L'inconscient se présente essentiellement sous un aspect dynamique, comme le lieu des pulsions biologiques fondamentales, fortement chargées d'énergie psychique et tendant à remonter à la conscience et à s'extérioriser en actes.

CONT

c'est seulement avec Freud que la "psychologie des profondeurs" c'est-à-dire de l'inconscient est devenue courante.

Spanish

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