Consciousness is such condition of the person at which he accurately understands what happens to it and around it when he realizes the actions and controls them. Unconscious it is shown in uncontrollable, extramental actions and mental manifestations. And though it is two various parties in mentality of the person, consciousness and unconscious are in a continuous communication and interaction.
Let's address Siegmund Freud's theory
Having based psychoanalysis – the new doctrine in psychology, it the first began studying human consciousness and unconscious manifestations in his behavior. He was convinced that active consciousness of the person at which he acts consciously occupies the smallest share in mentality – no more than one tenth. Whereas unconscious – its most most part where our instincts, extramental emotions, desires, fears are stored. Implicitly, being only sometimes shown, they direct us, influence our decisions, feelings and dreams.
How unconscious it is shown in consciousness?
So, consciousness – all this that we comprehend and control. Unconscious – it is not realized and does not submit to control, and on the contrary, itself influences us. Sudden flashes of insight and inspirations, opening, creativity and inspiration, creation new, the sudden solution of the important and long not giving in task – all this manifestations unconscious.
But also early children's impressions, fears, doubts and uncertainty – too there. And still – reflexes and instincts, extramental feelings, such as feeling of balance or habitual sounds, images which we do not notice, but to which we react. They break in consciousness dreams, the notions of compulsion, slips and reservations, diseases and pains, unconscious storing or a zabyvaniye, vague motives something to make without accurate understanding of the purpose of these actions.
Communication of consciousness both unconscious is so shown and today any doctrine in psychology does not call it in question. Both spheres closely intertwine, influencing also the person, and at each other. The area unconscious thanks to this communication can open to the person and it becomes clear what internal forces and motives are behind a threshold of his consciousness and operate his thoughts and acts.
Knowing about it, it is possible to cost the life much more effectively: to trust a voice of the intuition, to open for creativity and creation, to study the inhibited desires and the hidden fears. It will demand deep self-knowledge and introspection, but it is important to understand itself to grow, develop, achieve the big objectives.
Protective function of unconscious
The psychophysiology of unconscious is important: it protects our consciousness from an overload. Replacement of the strong or limiting experiences, fears, information which can injure mentality, protects us from a psychological overstrain and failures. Certainly, release from them is important for full self-realization, but at certain moments their blocking is useful.
On the other hand, protection of consciousness is shown also in its release from control of daily actions which are brought to automatism and do not demand considering. For example, we do not watch how of letters there are words when we read how we gather air in lungs and we push out it when we breathe what movements we make during the walking, physical exercises, the letter, etc. It concerns also difficult professional actions if they are carried out daily and also do not demand conscious control.
Sending to unconscious what can do without consciousness participation, we allow reason to concentrate on the solution of other important tasks. But it is not necessary to rely too on the conscious mind, forever forgetting about what we forced out, hid, suppressed. It is all the same will escape outside, will demand attention, will give an impetus for growth. Consciousness and unconscious are equally important for us, they exist in harmony and it is impossible to belittle or exaggerate value of any of them.
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