Key Arguments

• Freud applies his general account of becoming pcs to analytic technique, asking "how do we make something repressed (pre-)conscious" and answering: "by producing pcs links through analytical work."
• He emphasizes that "consciousness remains in its place, but the ucs also does not rise to cs," indicating that the route is indirect: analytic work changes the relational status of unconscious contents rather than their intrinsic nature.
• This view is consistent with his earlier idea that unconscious ideas require the establishment of links (via word-presentations) in order to be brought to consciousness.

Source Quotes

In some way as well it is closer to the unconscious processes than thinking in words, and is undoubtedly, both onto- and phylogenetically, 30 older than it. Returning to our argument, if this is the way something unconscious becomes pre-conscious, then it begs the question, how do we make something repressed (pre-)conscious, so answered: by producing pcs links through analytical work. So consciousness remains in its place, but the ucs also does not rise to cs.

Returning to our argument, if this is the way something unconscious becomes pre-conscious, then it begs the question, how do we make something repressed (pre-)conscious, so answered: by producing pcs links through analytical work. So consciousness remains in its place, but the ucs also does not rise to cs. While the relationship of the outer perceptions to the Ego is very obvious, that of inner perceptions to the Ego requires especial examination.

Key Concepts

• if this is the way something unconscious becomes pre-conscious, then it begs the question, how do we make something repressed (pre-)conscious, so answered: by producing pcs links through analytical work.
• So consciousness remains in its place, but the ucs also does not rise to cs.

Context

Transition in Chapter II from the general mechanics of pcs/ucs to the specific question of therapeutic technique and how repression is overcome.