Assumption 2 - unconscious mind

• freud described our mind as being like an iceberg, with the conscious Mind being the tip, the pre-conscious being just below the surface and the unconscious being deep below the water

  
• The unconscious mind 


  • cannot be directly accessed
  • ruled by pleasure seeking (id)
  • believed to determine much of our behaviour, we are motivated by unconscious emotional drives
  • it expresses itself indirectly, like through dreams and appears through symbols
• The unconscious mind is also related to defence mechanisms, conflicts between the id, ego and superego Create anxiety. Therefore the ego protects itself utilising defence Mechanisms
• Defence mechanism

  • repression - unacceptable feelings pushed down into the unconscious mind
  • displacement - putting emotions onto someone else - bullied becomes the bully
  • regression - responding to anxiety in childish ways
  • sublimination
  • denial - refusing to accept and go through emotions that provoke unpleasant feeling
  • projection - peoples own faults are attributed to someone else