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Affects of which the individual is unaware may exert their behavioral effect in two different modes, as unconscious affects
or as potential affects. Unconscious affects are those which exist in an activated state outside of awareness. Potential affects are those which may arise from a dispositional state of the individual in which the affect is not aroused and active but is 'more ready than usual' to be so. Unconscious affects are items of mental content; as such, they are in the realm of subjective experience. Potential affects, on the other hand, are, strictly speaking, not affects at all but structural dispositions to produce affects and, as structures, they are not in the realm of subjective experience. The relevance of this distinction is illustrated with some examples of defense against affects.