What is the view of contemporary psychology regarding unconscious processes?

How do contemporary psychologists view Freud and the unconscious?

- Freud's theories offer only after-the-fact explanations, - repression rarely occurs.

- little support for defence mechanisms

- current research confirms that our access to all that goes on in our mind is very limited, but does not support Freud's view of the unconscious

- instead, our unconscious consists of SCHEMAS that control our perceptions: priming, parallel processing, implicit memories of learned skills, instant emotions, self-concepts, stereotypes that filter info about ourselves and others

- FALS CONSENSUS EFFECT (tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviours) = Freud's PROJECTION (transcribing your feelings onto someone else - you don't like them = they don't like you) and REACTION FORMATION (exaggerating the opposite feeling) also seems to happen