... aware, alert and awake at the moment, e.g. you can easily answer the question of "What is your name?". The preconscious level contains the memories and thoughts that are easily remember through a little effort, e.g. in respond to a question of "Where are you last night?". The unconscious level is the most controversial one amongst the consciousness, it contains the information, including the past unpleasant emotion and experiences which were repressed and we are not aware. We can only access them with great effort; yet, some of them are entirely inaccessible. (Davis & Palladino, 1995). Freud argued that most of our behaviour is motivated by our unconscious, but how could we know the existence of it. Freud suggested that there are several ways to access the unconscious level. The first one is free association, patients are encouraged to give free rein to their thoughts and feelings, expressing whatever comes into ...

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