unconscious

Unconscious, as used in bio-analytic context, is the whole of our inner organisation process of which we are not consciously aware. It is much more than the traditional medical state of unconsciousness, which is merely a symptomatic state of not being conscious. The unconscious also includes all the biological aspects of our system and is thus more than the purely psycho-analytical definition of the unconscious.

Most people are intuitively aware of an unconscious biological and psychological background against which they experience their conscious life. Many names are used to describe this elusive but clearly felt entity: subconscious, preconscious, unconscious, intuition or gut-feeling. In bio-analysis the unconscious ranges from the action of a single white blood cell to the hormonal source of our thirst or the main character in a dream which we do not remember after waking up. Although our definition of unconscious may overlap with many of the definitions from different schools of thought in philosophy and psychology, it is based upon best practice and focuses mainly on the practical and personal experience that most people have about their unconscious world in relation to health and healing. In other words, whether our conscious self creates the concept of an unconscious to help us organise our world, or whether, on the other hand, our unconscious (as our broader self) creates a conscious ego to improve the organisation of our system, the concept of a dynamic unconscious is crucial to describe the interaction between our inner and outer world.