This approach focuses on Motivation and Personality. Motivation can be considered as cause while Personality is the reflection of the current motivation and past experiences. Sigmund Freud is the founder of psychoanalysis. Freud also emphasized consciousness and its levels.
conscious- aspect of the mind where we are aware of our thoughts and feelings.
subconscious- aspect of the mind that is below the level of awareness.
preconscious- part of the subconscious mind that can be deliberately accessed.
unconscious- portions of the subconscious mind which cannot be directly accessed.
Freud analyzed that the mind is aware even if the person is asleep. he called it manifest content. Wish Fulfillment Theory refers to Freud's best known theory of dreaming where he claimed that all dreams represent wish fulfillment, mainly of repressed desires.
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