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Levels of mind (Freud)
- Different levels of consciousness
- Hidden mental processes in unconscious determine choices and decisions
- No free will
- No free will
- Much of our thinking takes place at an unconscious level
- Hidden mental processes in unconscious determine choices and decisions
- 3 levels
- Conscious
- Accessible to all
- Thoughts and feelings
- Things currently thinking about
- Direct awareness of these thoughts and
experiences, e.g. if hungry get food
- Accessible to all
- Preconscious
- Thoughts emerging from unconscious
- Not directly aware of things here but they can easily be retrieved, e.g. birth date
- Retrieval through recall and recognition
- Retrieval through recall and recognition
- Things here may be filtered to be socially acceptable
- No direct awareness
- Represents most of long-term memory
- Includes memories of experiences
- Thoughts emerging from unconscious
- Conscious
- Unconscious
- Inaccessible/very difficult to access without therapy
- Particularly accessed through dream interpretation
- Source of dreams, which usually come from early childhood conflicts
- Free association
- Source of dreams, which usually come from early childhood conflicts
- Particularly accessed through dream interpretation
- Information about very emotional past experiences/trauma
- Repressed memories pushed here to allow everyday functioning
- Repressed memories pushed here to allow everyday functioning
- Significant psychic events with symbolic importance
- Instincts, drives and desires as well as pre-verbal memories
- Inaccessible/very difficult to access without therapy
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