... Everyday life - 1901). Most of our behavior is, however, led by our unsatisfied drives and unconscious wishes. For Freud, the unconscious was a powerful force in behavior: thoughts and actions, which a patient didn't even realize were very important in his researches. Freud based his ideas on this claims. The unconscious mind (or subconscious) is the feature of the mind of which we are not directly conscious or aware. Unconscious contains all those experiences and feelings that are "hidden" in our mind and we cannot recall them into the conscious mind, but they somehow "leak out" either directly or in a symbolic way. The concept of the unconscious mind is perhaps Freud's biggest contribution to psychology. His bigger question was still at a distance: What is the biggest force that motivates our behavior? Of all biological influences, Freud thought that sexuality was the most powerful and that all pleasure is based ...

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