This article discusses the concept of the unconscious in transactional analysis and the risk of adopting the classical psychoanalytic concept of the unconscious without integrating it into transactional analysis theory in a way that is consistent with its epistemological preconditions. The author suggests that nonconscious processes be viewed as both implicit processes and as processes that are outside of awareness, recalling in particular Berne's concepts of protocol and intuition. Finally, a link is suggested between nonconscious processes and the psychic organs as defined in the apparatuses of the mind.
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