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The
greatest contributions of Freud’s are his concepts of the unconscious
and of the levels of consciousness, which are the keys
to understanding behavior and the problems of personality.
The
conscious
level consists of whatever sensations and experiences
you are aware of at a given moment in time. For example,
perceptions, memories, thoughts and feelings. It represents
only a small percent of all the bits of information stored
in the mind.
The
preconscious
domain
(available memory) comprises of all
the experiences that are not conscious at the moment
but which can
easily be retrieved into awareness. In Freud’s view, the
preconscious bridges the conscious and the unconscious regions of
mind.
Unconscious processes are at the root of all forms of neurotic symptoms and behaviors. It is the primitive instinctual drives, emotions and memories that they have been repressed.