Sigmund Freud in 1921

A lesson on hysteria, Andre Broulliet (1887)

mind

consciousness

unconsciousness

mind

consciousness

unconsciousness

subconscious

consciousness

unconsciousness

mind

consciousness

unconsciousness

preconsciousness

Hysteria = unsuccessful repression.

• Everyone’s mind consists of conscious and unconscious processes.

• Everyone is continually repressing things.

• Everyone’s mind consists of conscious and unconscious processes.

• Everyone is continually repressing things.

What does this mean?

• Our minds are in conflict with themselves.

• Our minds are in conflict with themselves.• We don’t know ourselves the way we think we

do.

• Our minds are in conflict with themselves.• We don’t know ourselves the way we think we

do.• We might not like the things we don’t know

about ourselves.

• Our minds are in conflict with themselves.• We don’t know ourselves the way we think we

do.• We might not like the things we don’t know

about ourselves. • We don’t necessarily know why we do what

we do.

VIDEOPaul Bloom

Psychology, Yale

Id (it) Superego (super I)Ego (I)

What kinds of wishes do we repress?

Dreams are constructed like symptoms.