Forec

Both are unconscious in the psychological sense; but in our sense the first, which we call Unc., is likewise incapable of consciousness, whereas the second we term "Forec." because its emotions, after the observance of certain rules, can reach consciousness, perhaps not before they have again undergone censorship, but still regardless of the Unc. system.

Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Sigmund Freud 1897

On the one hand, they afford the Unc. an outlet for the discharge of its excitement, and serve it as a sally port, while, on the other hand, they give the Forec. the capability of dominating the Unc. to some extent.

Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Sigmund Freud 1897

But when the dream process becomes a content of perception it has, so to speak, eluded the obstacle set up in the Forec. by the censor and by the sleeping state.

Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Sigmund Freud 1897

To accomplish this the Forec. system needed some qualities of its own which could attract consciousness, and most probably received them through the connection of the foreconscious processes with the memory system of the signs of speech, which is not devoid of qualities.

Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Sigmund Freud 1897

The guardian is then overpowered, the unconscious excitations subdue the Forec.; through it they dominate our speech and actions, or they enforce the hallucinatory regression, thus governing an apparatus not designed for them by virtue of the attraction exerted by the perceptions on the distribution of our psychic energy.

Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Sigmund Freud 1897

Forec. is rendered less excitable by sleep than that directed to the

Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Sigmund Freud 1897

The subjection of the Unc. by the Forec. is not complete even in perfect psychic health; the amount of this suppression shows the degree of our psychic normality.

Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Sigmund Freud 1897

Forec. system by the sleeping state, but there is no doubt that the psychological character of sleep is essentially due to the change of energy in this very system, which also dominates the approach to motility, which is paralyzed during sleep.

Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Sigmund Freud 1897

The sensory stimulus accomplishes what it was really destined for, namely, it directs a part of the energy at the disposal of the Forec. in the form of attention upon the stimulant.

Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Sigmund Freud 1897

Thus far we have elaborated the plan of the psychic apparatus; these two systems are the germ of the Unc. and Forec, which we include in the fully developed apparatus.

Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Sigmund Freud 1897