Because the information in the unconscious is in an unruly and often disturbing form, a " censor " in the preconscious will not allow it to pass unaltered into the conscious.
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Freud saw the preconscious as characterised by reality-testing, recallable memories, and ( above all ) links to word-presentations the key distinction from the contents of the unconscious.
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He invented the so-called Psycholytic Therapy ( German : Psycholytische Therapie ) which is a combination of psychodynamic psychotherapy with some light use of hallucinogens to enhance access to preconscious contents.
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Matte Blanco points out that " We are always, in a given mental product, confronted by a mixture of the logic of the unconscious with that of the preconscious and consciousness ".
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The challenge this poses for a linguist is to find the means of analyzing the preconscious mental operations, the " psychomechanisms " as he called them, giving rise to each part of speech.
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"Preconscious " thoughts in classical psychoanalysis are thus " unconscious " in a merely " descriptive " sense, as opposed to a " dynamic " one, the topographical system thus permitting itself to:
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In Freud's theory he allows parapraxes to be generated in the preconscious and so he would allow for thoughts that are currently tried to be put outside of consciousness to have effects on conscious actions.
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Eric Berne considered that the preconscious covered a much wider area of the mind than was generally recognised, a'cult'of the unconscious leading to its over-estimation by both analyst and analysand.
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The theory therefore leads to the controversial thesis that response priming effects are a measure of preconscious processing of visual stimuli, which may be qualitatively different from the way those stimuli are finally represented in visual awareness.
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Freudians might point out, however, that this is simply a description of what Freud and Breuer termed the preconscious which Freud defined as thoughts that are not presently conscious but can become conscious without meeting any resistance.
