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In developing a topology of mind, Freud developed a metaphor of mental life in the language of space and time, much as Descartes did 21/2 centuries earlier with the field of mathematics as he set a foundation for the scientific inquiry of the enlightenment. As Freud (1949, pp. 105-106) noted in an Outline of Psychoanalysis, he sought to create “a physical apparatus extended in space, appropriately constructed, developed by the exigencies of life, which gives rise to the phenomena of consciousness only at one point and under certain conditions.” His early objective was to “establish psychology upon foundations similar to those of any other science, such as physics” (1949, pp. 105-106). Freud's metaphor of the doorkeeper standing between the rooms of the unconscious and conscious often has been associated with his model of mind. It also has often become the foundation for establishing a conceptual approximation to mental reality, and for establishing a scientific psychology of mind with forces and vectors, much like Newtonian physics. The purpose of this article is to reexamine this metaphor of mind frequently associated with Freud's view, looking at both its positive and negative features with particular focus on the problematic use of language borne out by the metaphor. The next segment of the article will compare the hidden-reality view with another metaphor of mind sometimes discussed in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy—the meaning-reorganization scheme, shaped in part by the philosopher Herbert Fingarette, again looking at its positive and negative features. The final segment of this article discusses of a third metaphor of mind, the context-recontextualization paradigm, which may offer a more pragmatic and internally consistent conception of mind than do the other two metaphors. The value of this last metaphor is to shift the emphasis away from separating distinctions in conceptualizing the mind and toward the integration of our identity and experience as individ