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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 13, No. 3, 363-378 (1987)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167287133006
© 1987 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

The Experimental Study of the Psychoanalytic Unconscious

Paul Kline

University of Exeter

Psychoanalytic descriptions of conscious and unconscious mental processes are discussed in the light of the philosophical problems in this area. A definition of the unconscious as the unverbalizable is employed that enables it to be subjected to experimental study. Three methods of studying the unconscious are described and scrutinized: percept-genetics, the drive activation method, and the G analysis of projective tests. It is concluded that psychoanalytic notions of the unconscious are open to experimental analysis.


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