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THE MEMOIRS OF A CAT Mentally as well as physically, human being is dominated not by his consciousness, which is supposed to be the spark of divine light; all his thoughts as well as actions are determined by the “Unconscious” wliich is the accumulated store of natural impulses. The heritage of the whole animal ancestry of man is deposited in that store. The mental or spiritual aspect of human being is like an iceberg : Only a small part appears above the level of consciousness, the rest remaining submerged in the Unconscious. This remairder, which is called the unconscious mind, or simply the Unconscious, is not only the larger, but the more important part of human personality. Emotions, consciously felt, ideas, consciously held, acts, consciously performed, all originate in the Unconscious, so that the Unconscious determines the content of consciousness. This being the case, the conscious part of human mind-that is, rationalised emotions, imaginary ideas, hypocritical acts -is a secondary factor ; because its contents and functions are determined by forces lying deep down-in the essentially animal being of man.
This, in brief, is the view of the other prevalent school of modern psychology-psychoanalysis. According to this school of psychology, which has proved to be of great value for mental therapeutics, to discover, and allow unrestricted expression to the animal impulses, hidden in the dark region of the Unconscious, is the only way
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