Reply to comment

In my psychology classes we always learnt about the unconcious as this scary, mysterious void where our deepest and darkest fears lay waiting to manifest themselves in our dreams or actions. To me, Freud's account of this part of the brain was troubling. I always wondered why Freud went to all that trouble psychoanalyzing his patients to get them to tap into that part of themselves. Was it is own morbid curiosity as to what layed in the inner psyhe of average people, or was there something else that would help his patients. I think it was a combination of both. Freud saw the potential in the unconcious. He saw how the this void could actually be the home to his patients' dreams and fears, and by accessing these he could help them fufill their lifes' purpose or face their nightmares.

This realization came to me as I was reasearching last week's paper. I was trying to play devil's advocate for the unconcious and found myself siding with it more and more. By the end of the hour I was fully convinced that the unconcious was an untaped source of power, just waiting to be drilled for creativity. Yet I had to moderate my views to incorporate the importance of the concious too. Without which there would be less direction in the brain.