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Themes from Freud's Theories

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What were some of the main themes from Freud's theories that manifest in modern literature?

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Here are some popular theories which are seen in modern literature:

One common theory is of consciousness vs. unconscious mind. The conscious mind is what you are aware of at any particular moment, your present perceptions, memories, thoughts, fantasies, feelings, what have you. Working closely with the conscious mind is what Freud called the preconscious, what we might today call "available memory:" anything that can easily be made conscious, the memories you are not at the moment thinking about but can readily bring to mind.

The largest part by far is the unconscious. It includes all the things that are not easily available to awareness, including many things that have their origins there, such as our ...

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