“Revising our Unconscious”: What we have truly come to know; how to salvage it from what we should not have chosen to have forgotten

In this manuscript, concepts, issues and resolutions that call for conscious awareness in research into the unconscious are meticulously revisited. Historical episodes and episodes of controversial experimentation that are formative rallying points for understanding contemporary attitudes to the unconscious in psychological science and the impact of historical controversy to contemporary polarisation are discussed. The theoretical debates, methodological inquiries and contributing resolutions that have stemmed from these controversies are conceptually discoursed and meta-analytically cited. Replicated illustrations that show how purportedly established and well-known, and previously unaddressed methodological biases occur in this area, and how we can resolve these hurdles within the – frequently overlooked – limitations of the current scientific paradigm, are experimentally demonstrated. As a decisive communication of engaging with these themes, concepts, issues and resolutions, the conceptual importance and research merits of a reminding and combined scholarly-theoretical and applied-empirical conscious understanding of the unconscious is encouraged and accentuated.