Preconscious

In <a href="/facts/Psychoanalysis/gYCbGpPv">psychoanalysis</a>, the preconscious is the locus preceding consciousness. Thoughts are preconscious when they are unconscious at a particular moment, but are not <a href="/facts/Psychological_repression/bB30whTK">repressed</a>. Therefore, preconscious thoughts are available for recall and easily 'capable of becoming conscious'—a phrase attributed by <a href="/facts/Sigmund_Freud/KKIYbom9">Sigmund Freud</a> to <a href="/facts/Josef_Breuer/bz3DRayF">Josef Breuer</a>.
Freud contrasted the preconscious to both the conscious (Cs.; das Bewusste) and the unconscious (Ucs.; das Unbewusste) in his topographical system of the mind.
The preconscious can also refer to information available for <a href="/facts/Cognitive_processing/ga0tSBul">cognitive processing</a> but that currently lies outside conscious awareness. One of the most common forms of preconscious processing is <a href="/facts/Priming_(psychology)/rcWhNB0y">priming</a>. Other common forms of preconscious processing are <a href="/facts/Tip_of_the_tongue/nac6qQRh">tip of the tongue</a> phenomena and <a href="/facts/Blindsight/hfRqrmh7">blindsight</a>.

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Preconscious