Note 26 — PART II DREAMS
Joan Riviere translation
[It should be noted that in using the word “unconscious” to translate the German “unbewusst” we are deflecting it from its customary English sense, which is “absence of unawareness,” such as in the phrases “he lay unconscious,” “a stone is unconscious,” etc. Unbewusst is rather “unconscious’d,” i.e. something of which the subject is not aware. Of it two statements may therefore be predicated, not only that it is not conscious in itself or of itself, but also that the subject is not conscious of its existence.—Tr.]