REVIVAL OF THE UNCONSCIOUS: IS HISTORY FROM SCIENTIFIC PSYCHOLOGY AND THE STUDY OF IMPLICIT LEARNING

This article presents a historic review of the study of the unconscious in scientific psychology, its trajectoryas an object of study- accepted or not- among academics and its development parallel to the subject ofawareness. After a brief look at the latest contributions explaining conscious processing of information,we will deal with the origins of the study of the unconscious; starting with the first studies in the 18thcentury, then its fall in the beginning of the 20th century and its later return in the middle of the samecentury- already as the study of the cognitive unconscious. Afterwards we will discuss its current state asan object of high interest now rather called “the implicit” and still maintaining itself as a fruitful field ofinvestigation and debate. We will finish the article by presenting the example of implicit learning and itsmain models: the artificial grammars, serial learning and dynamic systems.