This paper investigates the logical similarity between Freud's five characteristics of the unconscious and the attributes of God in Christian philosophical theism, in the light of Matte-Blanco's concept of symmetric logic.

If philosophical theism has described something like the unconscious, then the mystic also has moved towards God through his or her unconscious. This suggests, by analogy with the human mind, that God might be seen as in a sense both conscious and unconscious. Philosopher and mystic, in their different ways, deal with the unconscious of God, but most faiths relate to another 'conscious' aspect also. Religions may be characterized by the weight they place on the conscious and on the unconscious aspects of God.