noun. With regard to psychoanalytic theory, the area of the psyche which consists of memories, emotional conflicts, desires, and repressed urges which are not directly within reach to consciousness but which have dynamic impacts on thought and actions. Sigmund Freud , at times, utilized the term dynamic unconscious to differentiate this idea from that which is merely descriptively unconscious but “static
UNCONSCIOUS 1 (UCS): “Studies currently in existence on the unconscious are too numerous to count.”