Claims About Exploring The Subconscious

Once someone realizes that the very existence of any subconscious part of the human mind (in the sense of there being parts of my mind that I cannot access) can never be verified or falsified [1], the lunacy of many comments that people make about subconscious psychological processes becomes blatant.  Some might even go so far as to treat the subconscious as the key to understanding all conscious mental activities and experiences.  In fact, they might claim that they understand their subconscious minds, acting as if conscious thoughts can only be rightly comprehended in light of the subconscious.

The great irony about someone claiming they have unlocked the secrets of the subconscious is that if they had truly discovered what they assert they have found, then the subconscious would no longer be subconscious, as it would be open to their direct scrutiny.  A "subconscious" mind has to be invisible to a person's consciousness, or else it is not the subconscious.  Anyone that claims to have monitored their subconscious--as if anyone can even prove that such a thing exists in any form--likely does not even understand what the concept itself is.

And yet one can easily find internet articles, books, and ideologies stating that the subconscious exists and can be known in some way.  The very thing that would make something subconscious, in the traditional psychological understanding of the term, is its inability to be detected by the conscious mind.  There is a difference between being able to only see certain parts of one's consciousness at a given moment, the rest being outside the realm of focus at that time, and being incapable of seeing entire regions of one's mind--like standing in a single room and being unable to see activities in the next room.  If something truly is subconscious, then one cannot be aware of it.

Since the hypothetical subconscious is outside of the range of conscious experiences, it could never be discovered through introspection.  Since it does not follow from any provable facts that there must be a subconscious aspect to one's mind, the subconscious could never be proven by logic.  Since the subconscious would be unobservable with the senses (much less with basic introspection, which itself is outside of the scientific method), it could never be directly supported by science, since claims about something that cannot be observed can only be psuedoscientific.

The very notion of the subconscious is an idea that is completely irrelevant to everything that is known about human consciousness.  This does not prevent some from pretending like they can verify its existence or understand its alleged riddles, though exploring the subconscious in the ways that some trumpet around could only be possible if there either is no subconscious at all or if the subconscious can be brought into immediate consciousness.

[1].  https://thechristianrationalist.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-subconscious.html