The unconscious, as is addressed by the Socio-historical Psychology is not an absolute and dominant instance of consciousness, but co-exist in a dialectical relationship in which one allows the existence of the other. From this understanding, we explain throughout this article how this relationship occurs. How different is the way it is usually treated by Psychology also take care to clarify what is the unconscious to this approach and, given the epistemic condition common among analysis about social conditions, and ontogeny in Marxist theory and Socio-historical field. Also we point the differentiation between alienation and the unconscious. Finally, we point out the need for further studies on the unconscious within this theoretical perspective.
socio-historical psychology; unconscious; consciousness