Abstract
This article delineates four realms of unconscious experience–depicted as the Bernean, the characterological, the transferential, and the emergent–as they relate to the evolution of transactional analysis theory and technique. Presented in semiautobiographical fashion, the article relates the unfolding of different levels of understanding of unconscious processes in the author's professional development. Case vignettes illustrate the therapist's engagement with diverse aspects of unconscious processes within the therapeutic relationship.