Unconscious Mind

The unconscious or subconscious mind, according to classical Freudian psychoanalysis, is a part of the mind that stores repressed memories. Sigmund Freud believed that the unconscious can be found in dreams and fantasies; and forced us to recognize that unconscious factors are significant determinants of human behavior. Since Freud studied mainly women, those unconscious factors usually were sexual traumas during early childhood. Many of his followers looked up to him and improvised on his ideas, …

…himself, as inferior and insignificant to his family, work, and authority. The death, in My Dream, symbolized closure and change on an unconscious level of mind. Images and symbols in the painting, Emotions, really portrayed a good example of the unknown unconscious. The unconscious mind is a dark and mysterious place, and not much is known about it. There will always be the great theories of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and many of their followers.