This article explores the insight of the analyst and the concept of unconscious freedom. By insight, the author is referring to those sudden bursts of realization, the "aha" phenomena. Arising from the unconscious of the analyst, these emotional insights can help break an impasse or curtail an enactment. Unconscious freedom is the analyst's ability to function in the implicit or unconscious rel...

This research addresses empirically the issue of the possibility for making unconscious analogies. It demonstrates unconscious and unintentional analogies between structurally similar but superficially dissimilar word pairs. Experiment 1 demonstrated spontaneous unconscious analogical transfer between analogous word pairs. Experiment 2 ruled out the potential semantic priming explanation for th...