The Conscious and Unconscious Minds According to “The Allegory of the Cave,” “ The Oedipus Complex,” and “ The Personal and the Collective Unconscious,” people 's behavior in society originates in the conscious and unconscious minds. Different people have different kinds of personalities which is caused by different types of education, environments, cultures and experiences. These elements strongly influence how they regard the world, and influence how their conscious mind work. However, these elements also accumulate senses of the unconscious which consists of the processes in human mind that occur automatically and are not available to introspection. In this way, the authors Plato, Freud, and Jung argue that the reality of
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Freud and Plato both agree that the unconscious, people difficulty note, is repressed by the conscious mind, but the conscious and the unconscious simultaneously existing in the inner life help people realize the reality. Conscious, the reflection of the material world, includes feeling, thinking and other mental processes of various sum. Unconscious, influenced by out reality, can not become conscious, but it could be repressed desires realized from the inner lives. For example, Dreaming, slip of the tongue and writing errors are forms of the reflection of the unconscious. As Freud put it,“…with the whole force of the repression by which those wishes have since that time been held down within us…in which those same impulses, though suppressed, are still to be found” (920). In “The Oedipus Complex,” Freud states that people have …show more content…
Sometimes people are difficult to explain why their dream that they have never expected. For example, Freud states, “many men dream of having sexual relations with their mother….when dreamt by adults, are accompanied by feelings of repulsion” (921). When people are wake, the conscious mind represses the unconscious mind for the considerations of reality and morality. He explains that the restraining forces are weakened while people are sleeping, so they may experience our desires through our dream. Unlike Freud, Jung did not agree with all dreams were necessarily sexual in nature. He says “Therefore the dreams are obviously reiterating the conscious sandpoint minua the conscious criticism, which they completely ignore” (935). In “ The Personal and The Collect Unconscious”, Jung points out the images and symbols coming from dream portray the external world- individuals’ real lives and the person 's internal world which includes feelings, thoughts and emotions. Dream can represent the reflect events in childhood, and also anticipating future events. Consequently, people can get inspire about the reality from dream, and it could express personal and collective contents which displays through
Freud and Plato both agree that the unconscious, people difficulty note, is repressed by the conscious mind, but the conscious and the unconscious simultaneously existing in the inner life help people realize the reality. Conscious, the reflection of the material world, includes feeling, thinking and other mental processes of various sum. Unconscious, influenced by out reality, can not become conscious, but it could be repressed desires realized from the inner lives. For example, Dreaming, slip of the tongue and writing errors are forms of the reflection of the unconscious. As Freud put it,“…with the whole force of the repression by which those wishes have since that time been held down within us…in which those same impulses, though suppressed, are still to be found” (920). In “The Oedipus Complex,” Freud states that people have …show more content…
Sometimes people are difficult to explain why their dream that they have never expected. For example, Freud states, “many men dream of having sexual relations with their mother….when dreamt by adults, are accompanied by feelings of repulsion” (921). When people are wake, the conscious mind represses the unconscious mind for the considerations of reality and morality. He explains that the restraining forces are weakened while people are sleeping, so they may experience our desires through our dream. Unlike Freud, Jung did not agree with all dreams were necessarily sexual in nature. He says “Therefore the dreams are obviously reiterating the conscious sandpoint minua the conscious criticism, which they completely ignore” (935). In “ The Personal and The Collect Unconscious”, Jung points out the images and symbols coming from dream portray the external world- individuals’ real lives and the person 's internal world which includes feelings, thoughts and emotions. Dream can represent the reflect events in childhood, and also anticipating future events. Consequently, people can get inspire about the reality from dream, and it could express personal and collective contents which displays through