Human Consciousness: Role of the unconscious (Humans)

by BBella , Tuesday, February 09, 2016, 19:16 (3208 days ago) @ David Turell

Freud's 'unconscious' Makes a comeback:
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> http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/30/sigmund-freud-unconscious-theories... 
> " Yet it could be the case that far from being past its sell-by date, the time of the unconscious is yet to come.
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> "Further, psychoanalysis has itself radically revised Freud's original conclusions. But it now holds a century of wisdom on engaging this hidden and sometimes devastatingly powerful part of ourselves. Freud believed his work was only a beginning. Scientific research and sheer human need suggest we should energetically continue what he started."
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> Comment: From my own experience and training, repressed memories and ego defense mechanisms built up over the years can play very unwanted roles. But today talking and even studying dreams can play a role in helping the patient. Our brain is more complex than initially realized.-Freud and Jung's work and others called to me to study from a very young age. I look forward to any new information and understanding of the mysteries of the unconscious mind. It seems that aspect of the human mind is asleep until the conscious aspect falls asleep. Then the unconscious wakes and lives it's own life out in our minds until we awake. But even so, as the article points out, all of our lives are molded by both the conscious and the unconscious, that which we KNOW and remember and that which we don't. Imagine what kind of being we would be if both aspects of ourselves were fully aware and awake at all times. Mind blowing to think about.