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The author examines the psychic unconscious from various angles. He considers its relation to the sense-organs and its function of objectivity (Gegenstandsfunktion), and he discusses the part it plays in the impressions produced by experiences undergone by the subject, and in 'that form of automatism which assumes bodily shape'. He is evidently thinking throughout only of the physical, the non-psychic. Further, he touches on the unconscious as shown at work in various psychic experiences: in actual experience, in experiences on a lower level of consciousness, in the Freudian unconscious (in the systematic sense), and in the forgotten past. According to Schilder all these psychic experiences are conscious, though 'in a peculiar mode' which he calls 'spheric' (sphärisch): 'It will be seen that I uphold the thesis which, according to Freud, is untenable, namely, that everything psychic is conscious'.
The author does not call in question the individual facts from which was deduced the psycho-analytical concept of the unconscious (= the repressed). On the contrary, he asserts: 'The sphere is identical with Freud's system Ubw'. When, as here, a writer recognizes the individual facts which form the basis of a certain theory, yet regarding a given phenomenon from a different point of view, reduces to a different formula