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Generally and historically, whether from the tradition of psychoanalytic psychology, neurobiology, or cognitive science, unconscious thinking (or process) has been considered with the appellation of “outside of conscious awareness.” In some cases authors have correlated unconscious process (or thought) with intuition .
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Clinical treatment of the cure of this particular symptom can be seen in the volume, The Psychoanalysis of Symptoms by this author, Kellerman (2008, pp. 31–36).
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The components required in the unconscious domain to create a symptom shall be discussed in detail in this chapter under the heading of: Fear/Anger Schemas.
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In the volume by this author (Kellerman, 2008) is revealed that consciousness is not in itself curative; that is, what is made conscious regarding “content” is in essence the truly important issue. In this sense the issue of ‘cure’ is according to the mechanics of the psyche only curative when two criteria are satisfied. These criteria for curativeness to be achieved means that first, the repressed anger must be made conscious, and second, that the presence and identity in the unconscious of a specific person toward whom the anger is directed also needs to be made conscious. When these two criteria are satisfied, only then can consciousness be truly curative.
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Psychoanalytically understood, it is repressed anger residing in the unconscious arena that is at the bottom of the creation of any psychological symptom and is further explicated in Chap. 4, and sub-headed: The Emotion of Anger and the Defense of Repression : A Reference to the Architecture of Symptom-Formation in the Unconscious.
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See Chap. 3 for a more detailed view of the repetition-compulsion under the subhead: The Repetition-Compulsion .
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Kellerman, H. (2020). The Unconscious Realm. In: The Unconscious Domain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35009-3_2
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