Re:the nature of the unconscious

Interesting idea. The "unconscious" did not exist as a significant concept before Freud. I believe that it is a strange and sometimes damaging concept because as used in Psychoanalysis it can cause people to doubt their memories and create false memories.

We tend not to remember things before 3-4 yrs of age because 1. Our language is insufficient.
2. Our lives are relatively unstructured and we have little to "pin" memories on. (Notice your main memories begin when you went to school?)

Not because we supress our painful primitive urges as Freud would have us believe.

99% of our information has to be out of our awareness otherwise we would have a head full of everything that has happened to us in our life! We draw on what we need.

I'll give an example: DO you remember what you had for breakfast today...Probably Yes. Do you remember what you had for lunch 1 week ago? Probably No. Memory only remains in consciousness if its of some use. Did you Repress your memory of your lunch ..? NO, it decayed because it was uneventful.

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