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Who Discovered The Unconscious? Though definitions vary, the Unconscious can be understood to be the area of the psyche that contains thoughts, feelings and memories, which we have repressed for one reason or another. In doing so these repressed thoughts can manifest themselves through dreams, or through psychotic or neurotic behaviour. <Tab/>As to who discovered the unconscious? Perhaps the real question is: who identified the unconscious? For surely humans have …

…what we already know about the unconscious, and new theories and ideas are in constant circulation. We do not yet know all there is to know about the workings of the unconscious mind, there is still much to discover. And so, the answer to who precisely discovered the unconscious cannot be fully answered. But the people, whom we have looked at here, have all made major contributions in the field. <Tab/>