Conscious and Unconscious

Mind Shift ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 171-184
Author(s):  
John Parrington
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Brain Function ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Traumatic Memories ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Unconscious Mind

This chapter determines the relationship between the conscious and unconscious aspects of brain function. The unconscious consists of those mental processes that occur automatically and are not available to introspection. Increasingly, studies of brain function are revealing that a surprising amount of that function is automatic, and therefore, unconscious. However, there are controversial aspects to discussions about the unconscious, particularly the idea that it may play a far more contradictory role in consciousness, even acting in opposition to conscious thoughts. Such a viewpoint sees the unconscious as a force that may suppress unwelcome thoughts, but which might also make us carry out actions that do not appear to have been planned by our rational minds, and may even appear wholly irrational. This view of the unconscious mind is most associated with Sigmund Freud. Freud viewed the unconscious as the epicentre of people's repressed thoughts, traumatic memories, and fundamental drives of sex and aggression. This chapter reconsiders this view of the unconscious by relating to Mind Shift’s central theme about the importance of language in shaping consciousness.

Defense Mechanisms

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phebe Cramer
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Defense Mechanisms ◽  
Defense Mechanism ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Everyday Functioning ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Loss Of Self ◽  
Mental Operations ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Unconscious Mind

Defense mechanisms are mental operations that function outside of awareness. In this sense, they operate in the unconscious mind. Such mechanisms were first identified by Sigmund Freud in connection with psychopathology but later were understood to be part of normal everyday functioning. Defenses serve the purpose of protecting the individual from excessive anxiety and loss of self-esteem. Defense mechanisms have been found to change with age, based on the complexity of the mental operations involved. Once a child understands how a defense mechanism functions, the mechanism tends to be used less frequently and a cognitively more complex mechanism is adopted.

scholarly journals C.G. Jung on the Nature of Artistic Image

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 66-77
Author(s):  
Alexander Vyacheslavovich Sveshnikov
Keyword(s):  
Mental Processes ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Artistic Image ◽  
The Relationship

The article analyses C. Jung’s approaches to the problem of the symbol and the archetype, reviews the relationship between the compositional integrity of an artwork and an archetypal image as the two phenomena firmly rooted in the depths of the unconscious mental processes.

scholarly journals The Dream World of Wonderland

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiffany Teska
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Lewis Carroll ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Salvador Dali ◽  
Original Illustrations ◽  
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Alice’S Adventures In Wonderland ◽  
Unconscious Mind

In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll creates a whimsical, alternative reality based on arbitrary rules and nonsense to express his ideas regarding the nature of dreams. While the original illustrations of the text were created by 19th-century English artist and satirist John Tenniel, famed surrealist Salvador Dalí provides a more expressionistic and psychological exploration of the mind through his own illustrations of Carroll’s work in the 1969 Maegenus Press edition of Alice. In order to understand Dalí’s interpretation of the text, it is important to trace his interests in dreams back to its origins in Sigmund Freud and Surrealism, which came to light during the early 20th-century and focused on new forms of expression that sought to unhinge the supposed creativity trapped in the unconscious mind. Although Carroll, Dalí, and Freud were all from different time periods, their individual beliefs about the nature of dreams allow for a better understanding of how to analyze Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as a whole.

Psycho-analysis and its Developments

1926 ◽  
Vol 72 (299) ◽  
pp. 542-573
Author(s):  
W. A. Potts
Keyword(s):  
Free Association ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Conscious Mind ◽  
Royal Road ◽  
Personal Consciousness ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Unconscious Mind

There is in the mind a mass of past experiences which cannot be readily remembered. We also know that while the individual is aware of some of the processes of elaboration going on in his mind, there are other mental processes which elude his observation. Both forgotten experiences and unrealized mental processes constitute material of which the individual was said to be “not personally conscious.” The modern psychologist says the forgotten memories and the hidden mental processes are in the unconscious or subconscious mind, a stratum of the mind below the threshold of personal consciousness. He bases this statement on the conception that while the mind is a complete entity, it is so disposed that while the contents of one portion can be at once investigated by the individual, the rest is not so easily explored. The accessible portion is called the conscious mind, the rest the unconscious. Dr. G. Stanley Hall compared the mind to an iceberg, floating in the ocean with one-ninth visible above the water and eight-ninths below, the visible ninth corresponding to the conscious mind, and the larger submerged portion to the unconscious mind. Before the time of Freud there was no satisfactory method of exploring the unconscious. Freud, when dealing with neurotic and mental patients, was dissatisfied with the results obtained by hypnotism. But he noticed that some experienced relief, and also improved, when encouraged to talk frankly about their anxieties and difficulties. He worked out a method of exploring the unconscious mind, called psycho-analysis, founded on the theory that dreams are not accidental or meaningless; interpreted by the method of free association, they constitute the royal road to the unconscious mind. Free association means that when the analysand is asked of what a particular item in the dream makes him think, he gives the idea that first occurs to him, however far-fetched or absurd it may seem, and then allows one idea to call up others without let or hindrance.

‘I Kinda Like to Go Off the Track’: Finding David Lynch in the Middle World of Dune

Adaptation ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Amadio
Keyword(s):  
Source Material ◽  
David Lynch ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Creative Personality ◽  
Elephant Man ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Unconscious Mind ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Grotesque

Abstract For many scholars of David Lynch’s work, Dune is considered a spectacular failure, a costly creative misstep on the way to Blue Velvet. While it may not be regarded as one of his signature films, Dune contains enough of Lynch’s creative personality to warrant a critical re-examination. The purpose of this study is to place Dune within the context of his earlier work, namely Eraserhead and The Elephant Man, and to mine it for those tropes with which Lynch has become synonymous: enabling the grotesque, interiority and the unconscious mind, and the relationship between industry and flesh. By the director’s own admission, Dune forced him into an aesthetic middle world, wedging him between the midnight movie and mainstream cinema. Using Thomas Leitch’s theory of adaptation in both an archival and teleological reading of Dune, I demonstrate how Lynch asserts himself in this middle world, how he succeeds in honouring the source material while also meeting his authorial desire to reinvent it, to decouple from the archive and ‘go off the track’.

scholarly journals Kierkegaard, Freud, Lacan, Nasio y la Repetición

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-40
Author(s):  
Jesús María Dapena Botero
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Unconscious Mind

Lacan recomienda la lectura de Kierkegaard, un autor que Freud no cita, con lo cual nos invita a una experiencia transdisciplinaria sobre la noción de repetición, como elemento de lo inconsciente, en un intento de dar mayor profundidad filosófica al propio Sigmund Freud. Se parte de la pregunta de Kierkegaard si la repetición es posible. Para los presocráticos no era posible ya que el mundo es inmóvil para ellos, mientras para Heráclito estaba en un continuo devenir dialéctico, la cual se anticipaba a Hegel, filósofo bastante estudiado por Lacan. Para Kierkegaard, la repetición es la vida misma. Nasio nos muestra dos tipos de repetición: la sana y la patológica, asunto que tratamos de dilucidar aquí, de la que podemos liberarnos por la elaboración a través de la reviviscencia, síntesis de la inmovilidad presocrática y el devenir heraclitiano.Abstract Lacan recommends reading Kierkegaard, an author who Freud has not cited at all, which invites us to a transdisciplinary experience on the notion of repetition, as an element of the unconscious mind, in an attempt to provide greater philosophical depth to Sigmund Freud. Our starting point is Kierkegaard's question whether repetition is actually possible. For pre-Socratics, it was not possible since the world was immobile for them, while for Heraclitus, the world was in a continuous dialectical state of becoming, which anticipated Hegel, a philosopher Lacan has studied thoroughly. For Kierkegaard, repetition is life itself. Nasio shows us two types of repetition: the healthy one and the pathological one, an issue that we hereby try to elucidate. We can liberate ourselves from repetition by elaborating through reviviscence, synthesis of the pre-Socratic immobility and the Heraclitian becoming.

The Conscious and Unconscious Power in Pedagogy of Creative Writing: Liberation of Self

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chan Wing Haw KC ◽  
Tina Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Higher Order Thinking ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Writing Processes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Unconscious Mind

This paper discusses the idea of creative writing as a stimulant for higher order thinking. In doing so, it examines the relationship between creative thinking and writing processes. Therefore, in elaborating the term creative thinking, the paper discusses in the light of Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis theory – the unconscious mind. Under the influence and guidance of our unconscious mind, a liberating writing process occurs in a creative form. During this writing process, we develop a new identity as a result of the production of language. In which, this “new identity” has no influence or power over reader’s knowledge, however noble the writing can be.

1. Introduction

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Pick
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Free Association ◽  
Original Method ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Unconscious Mind

The ‘Introduction’ provides an overview of psychoanalysis, its history, and its development. Psychoanalysis is an original method of therapy that is a form of inquiry, a theory of mind, and a mode of treatment concerned, above all, with the unconscious mind. Founded by Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), it became a movement and set of institutions, inspiring many, but also galvanizing numerous opponents. Freud’s method of free association involves allowing the patient to discuss anything that comes into their mind. The analyst is tasked with attending to possible unconscious meaning in what the patient brings. Critique of psychoanalysis has taken many forms. Sometimes disagreements spurred new ideas and modified techniques within the mainstream tradition.

Mirroring the Complexities of the Human Psyche and the Depiction of Female Powerlessness in Alice Munro’s “Runaway”

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 1036-1041
Author(s):  
Steffi Santhana Mary. S ◽  
Dr Anita Albert
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Psychological Aspects ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Human Psyche

Human behaviour is constructed by unconscious drives and impulses. To Freud, thoughts are supposed to be guided by desires and these desires are the fundamental basis of humankind, life, and psyche. Not being expressed directly, they take other shapes in order to be expressible in personal and social situations. They are repressed because they could not be fitted into social norms and laws. Freud believes that many of our actions are motivated by psychological forces unknown to others which he calls ‘the unconscious’. The objective of the present paper is to read Munro's Runaway in the mirror of Sigmund Freud to detect the psychological aspects of the characters.

INFLUENCE OF CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT ON THE PERSONALITY OF IX STANDARD STUDENTS IN MADURAI

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (23) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Maruthavanan
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Management ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Important Task ◽  
Teaching Skill ◽  
Management Skill ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Study Researcher ◽  
Class Room ◽  
Teaching Learning

This study investigated the influence of personality on the class room management of IXth standard students in Madurai district. Psychoanalysts believe man’s behaviour is triggered mostly by powerful hidden forces within the personality. Sigmund Freud, an Australian physician was the originator of this theory in the early nineties He says much of people’s everyday behaviour is motivated by unconscious forces about which they know little. In order to fully understand personality then one need to illuminate and expose what is in the unconscious. Class room management is very important task in the teaching learning process. Without class room management skill teaching skill has made no effect in the class room. In the study the researcher take IX standard students in Madurai district. In this study researcher proved the above statement. He Proved that the classroom management is directly related with the personality.

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