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OF PERCEPTIONS AND PROCESSES NOT PERCEIVED BY CONSCIOUS PROCESSES - ALTHOUGH CONSCIOUS ACTIVITY OFTEN EXPERIENCES THE RESULTS OF SUBCONSCIOUS ACTIVITY - Under other nomenclature, the existence of the subconscious had long been accepted before it was named that in modern times and then somewhat unfairly postured as a new discovery. But Freud was one of the first to dissect, so to speak, the subconscious and divide it into different areas of activity -- such as the Ego, Id, Anima, Animus, Shadow, etc. -- all functioning beneath conscious awareness of them. It was proposed, and correctly so, that the elements within the subconscious WERE active ones in their own right, and that they therefore must be incorporated into explaining the sum of human psychological behavior. This concept was controversial at first, but subsequently accepted. A new controversy began erupting after World War II, and consisted of two major factors. The first has had very wide exposure; the second very little.