The paper underlines the fact that the attempts to model unconscious processes reflect researcher’s understanding of the object and not the object itself. It further assumes that a reason for the failure in this modeling may be the specific nature of the unconscious. In particular, the unconscious is evolutionally an older and much more diverse substance than our consciousness itself. Therefore, the possibility of studying the unconscious by conscious methods is being doubted. Consequently, the paper proposes a number of approaches which go beyond methodological ones (meta approaches). The paper further suggests implementation of these approaches on the scientific basis, by applying them to the analyzed object (proto approach).