Levels of Mental Life

Unconscious - contains the drives, urges, or instincts beyond awareness but nevertheless
motivate most of our words, feelings and actions

 Preconscious - contains those not conscious but can become conscious

 Unconscious proper - not to be recovered to conscious (but may appear through
slips) to avoid anxiety

Conscious - mental elements in awareness at any given point in time

 If there’s conscious, there’s also unconscious

 If you can’t remember something, does it mean it does not exist?

 Motivation is usually unconscious

 There are no such things as accidents,there’s always a motivation for something

 Psychology of Errors – psychological slips; parapraxes)