Freud’s Theory of the Unconscious Mind
The essay, ‘A note on the unconscious in psychoanalysis’ was written by Sigmund Freud in the year 1912. Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a method of explaining and treating mental and emotional disorders by having the patient talk freely about himself or herself and especially about dreams, problems, and early childhood memories and experiences. Freud may justly be called the most influential intellectual legislator of his age. His creation of psychoanalysis was at once a theory of human psyche, a therapy for the relief of it’s ills, and an optic for the interpretation of cultural and society. In his essay, Sigmund emphasised the unconscious mind, and a primary assumption of his theory is that the unconscious mind governs the behaviour to a greater degree than people suspect. Sigmund Freud’s concept of the unconscious mind lays a foundation to the psychoanalysis and has had a significant influence on psy...