For much of our history we have suffered from a pedestrian view of consciousness, leading to discussions on this topic since Freud best characterized as a distant murmur within proliferating theories of technique. While many outside of psychoanalysis consider consciousness as one of the great mysteries of science, within psychoanalysis, if we consider consciousness at all, it is as an epiphenomenon. Given this perspective it is not surprising that a majority of psychoanalysts seem to consider consciousness a distraction from the true interest of psychoanalysis, the unconscious. We have not come very far from what Anna Freud said over 65 years ago, ‘Somehow or other, many analysts conceived the idea that, in analysis, the value of the scientific and therapeutic work was in direct proportion to the depth of the psychic strata upon which attention was focused’

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