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But what about those internal processes which we may—roughly and inexactly—sum up under the name of thought-processes.… Do they advance to the surface, which causes consciousness to be generated? Or does consciousness make its way to them? … Both these possibilities are equally unimaginable; there must be a third alternative [Freud, 1923, p. 19].
In Part I of the present article (Natsoulas, 1984a), which was subtitled “Intrinsic Consciousness,” I stated that one must discuss both Freud's treatment of conscious psychical processes and his treatment of nonconscious psychical processes that may “become-conscious,” if one is to attempt to give a complete picture of his theory of consciousness. (Actually, a complete picture requires this and more, since Freud's theory of consciousness has further dimensions that require explanation.) The property of consciousness that belongs to conscious psychical processes and the property of consciousness that is acquired