thoughts and feelings that are not currently conscious, but can be moved with more or less effort into the realm of consciousness. The concept was used by Sigmund Freud to describe the levels of mental organization of an individual. The preconscious functions as an intermediate link between the conscious and unconscious levels of the psyche, providing access to previously acquired knowledge and experience. An example of preconscious is a situation when a person does not remember what he ate for breakfast, but if necessary, he is able to quickly restore this information.