Which one of the following statements best describes what the passage is about?

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Which one of the following statements best describes what the passage is about?

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A.
The discovery of the unconscious as a part of the human mind.
B.
The identification of the unconscious as an object of psychical research.
C.
The collating of diverse ideas under the single term: unconscious.
D.
The growing vocabulary of the soul and the mind, as diverse processes.

Option C is the correct answer.

Explanatory Answer

The passage states in the first paragraph that the term unconscious 'burst the shell of conventional language, coined as it had been to embody the fleeting ideas and the shifting conceptions of several generations until, finally, it became fixed and defined in specialized terms within the realm of medical psychology and Freudian psychoanalysis.' It goes on to detail how various conceptions and ideas came together between 1700 and 1900, and how the 'massive introduction of the term unconscious by Hartmann in 1869 appeared to focalize many stray thoughts'. Option C sums up what the passage is about best.