PRECONSCIOUS
"The thin line that separates the content of two antithetical dimensions. One of darkness and the unknown, the other of consciousness and sensible certainty. An imaginary layer that serves as a filter, activated by the most hidden involuntary act that resides within the depths of our mind. An innate mechanism that allows us to conceal those most unacceptable parts enclosed within our psyche."
In psychoanalysis, the preconscious represents that containment filter that soothes the intensity of the drive from the repressed unconscious towards ascent to consciousness and wise thought. According to Freudian philosophy in the description of the first topography, without the preconscious, the individual would be prey to the most perverse and intolerable impulses, mostly of a sexual nature, or to the most unpleasant and unacceptable thoughts, throwing the subject into a state of psychic discomfort, whose manifestation could appear sporadically or more frequently as inadequate behaviors or as true symptoms of psychosomatic distress, such as migraines, paralysis, angry outbursts, toothaches, constipation, catatonia, and much more. There is a clear separation between the two dimensions, where a human profile slowly emerges, while simultaneously immersing in sinful and unacceptable content towards the light, aligning with its identity of thought. Psychic energy shatters against the barrier imposed by the preconscious and dissipates in a swirling and chaotic struggle, remaining contracted and confined in the depths of the unconscious. A complex of fragmented, distorted images and representations stripped of their original content and converted into something tolerable and constructive.
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