Abstract
The objective was to understand, based on Historical-Cultural Psychology, the concept of unconscious for Vigotski. A conceptual study was carried out, systematizing what this author elaborated on the unconscious. Vigotski understands that the concept of the unconscious, together with the concepts of psyche and consciousness, is one of the main methodological problems of Psychology. For this author, the unconscious contents are a tendency of the activity of the conscience itself, and are rooted in social relations, in the production of material life. Throughout ontogenesis, from birth to death, the human being, through the appropriations of material and symbolic instruments of his culture, reorganizes his psyche in more complex degrees. What characterizes this scope of this development is not the purely biological conditions, but the mediations given in the concreteness of the singular life. In this process, for a full development it is essential that man submits the objectified social relations to his conscious collective control, so that he can develop as a free and universal individuality.
Keywords:
Vigotski; consciousness; unconscious