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Freud didn't exactly invent the idea of the conscious versus unconscious
mind, but he certainly was responsible for making it popular. The conscious
mind is what you are aware of at any particular moment, your present
perceptions, memories, thoughts, fantasies, feelings, etc. Working closely
with the conscious mind is what Freud called the preconscious, what we might
today call "available memory:" anything that can easily be made conscious,
the memories you are not at the moment thinking about but can readily bring
to mind. Now no one has a problem with these two layers of mind. But Freud
suggested that these are the smallest parts. The largest part by far is the
unconscious. It includes all the things that are not easily available to
awareness, including many things that have their origins there, such as our
drives or instincts, and things that are put there because we can't bear to
look at them, such as the memories and emotions associated with trauma.......

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