A state characterized by a lack of awareness. In
psychoanalysis, a domain of the psyche encompassing the repressed id functions,
the primitive impulses and desires, the memories, images, and wishes that are
too anxiety provoking to be accepted into consciousness. Characterizing these
primordial, repressed desires, memories and images. Note that the unconscious is
assumed to be populated by two varieties of psychic entities, those that were
once conscious but had been exiled from awareness and those that were never in
consciousness.