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What I found interesting from Thursday’s discussion was Aimee’s feeling of betrayal towards her brain and my contrasting thankfulness for it. While I’m sure we both are thankful for our brains, since we wouldn’t be here without them, it was our initial feelings that struck me. I was happy that my brain was taking over for me and keeping some of my necessary bodily functions to itself, while not always in the case of the boy I referenced in class. In that sense, I completely agree with Aimee, when my conscious brain was telling me that he was an misogynist, the rest of me was attracted to him. This definitely made me wary of my brain, but betrayed?

We have studied this in psychology and I love the interplay between the conscious and the unconscious. While I think Freud’s adaptations of these two, or in his case three, types of consciousness are a little too sexually fueled, they seem valid. Our conscious mind is in control of our “here and now” thoughts, such as what is going on at this very moment. The preconscious holds the thoughts that you were just thinking, basic thoughts that have the ability to be conscious thoughts, they can also be memories from earlier on. Unconscious holds all your unspoken, and maybe even unknown, desires and thoughts. Each manifests itself in different ways, such as the unconscious plays out in one’s dreams, leading to why Frued would make his patients talk him through their dreams, psychoanalyzing their unconscious desires.