PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12.3: The Conscious Mind, Freudian Slip, Unconscious Mind
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Personality and behaviour are shaped by powerful forces in consciousness, a great deal of which is hidden from our awareness in the mysterious unconscious. There are no mistakes because things we do are so buried in our unconscious mind and we have no direct control. The conscious mind: is your current awareness, containing everything you are aware of right now. Relationship between conscious and the unconscious is like an iceberg (cid:862)freudia(cid:374) slips(cid:863) slip of the tongue. Unconscious mind leads people to say (cid:449)hat they (cid:862)really thi(cid:374)k(cid:863) rather than what they are intending to say. Freud and other psychoanalysts argued that much of what manifests as personality reflects patterns that emerge fro(cid:373) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduals" atte(cid:373)pts to resol(cid:448)e conflicts within themselves, conflicts that are played out through the interactions between the conscious and unconscious minds. Freud hypothesized the human psyche consisting of three basic structures. Personality is shaped by each individual three varying systems.
