PSYCO333 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Sigmund Freud, Preconscious, Iceberg
13 Apr 2018
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Psychoanalytic view pressures within personality can conflict with each other. Defense as key aspect of human functioning. One contains conscious experience; the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours you"re aware of right now. One contains memories now outside awareness but able to come to awareness easily. 3rd mind topography its surface configuration. Conscious part of mind that holds what you"re now aware of. Preconscious part of mind representing ordinary memory: can easily bring these up to consciousness. Thinking of phone number, or last movie you saw. Unconscious a part of mind that"s not directly accessible to awareness: desires, repository for argues, feelings ideas that are tied to anxiety, conflict or pain. Iceberg = mind tip of iceberg = conscious larger part (below water line) = outside awareness. Preconscious - part you can see the water (some of it) Unconscious - part you can"t see (majority) Although conscious + preconscious both influence behaviour, freud saw them as less important than the unconscious.
