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Examples of my usage of the terms
"Subconscious Mind" and "Unconscious Mind"

The subconscious mind has several ‘levels’ or departments.
For example :

We can have that which is just below the threshold of awareness, what Freud called ‘the preconscious’.
This is illustrated by ‘tip-of- the-tongue’ phenomena, when we try to recall a person’s name or a particular word but cannot quite get it -- it is on the tip of our tongue.

We can be affected, at a subconscious level, by other people : by their moods, attitudes and behaviour.
If .I am in a good mood and then sit for some time next to another man who is immersed in depression then I am likely to pick up his depression, while he absorbs some of my gaiety.
I might like or dislike an older woman if her character traits subconsciously remind me of my mother.

We can have two or more personalities (or psychological identities).
Only one of these is conscious at any time, the others being subconscious.

Memories of psychological traumas that were experienced in childhood.
These are at a deeper level in the subconscious mind than the examples above.

Past-life influences (within the perspective of reincarnation) are often very powerful.
These arise from the deepest level of the subconscious mind.

There are subconscious boundaries to the way that the person controls his / her behaviour.
This is the region of social and moral conditioning (that is, behaviour that is controlled by reward and punishment, and not by the exercise of free choice).

The unconscious mind also has several ‘levels’ or departments.
For example :

The psychological effects of symbols derive their power from the unconscious level.

There are unconscious boundaries to the way that the mind operates.
People at different stages of evolution will have different boundaries. Boundaries reflect constraints on the power of the mind, and so they change as this power develops through personal evolution.
For example : a mythical absorption in reality is a typical aspect of aboriginal populations, and this gradually fades as the intellectual capacity of the mind develops.
Also, some people can access the higher regions of mind and have extra-sensory capabilities.

The rationale for boundaries is that they enable a person to function reasonably well in a world of chaotic and complex sensory impressions.

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