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Sigmund Freud

I need sleep! General this statement wouldn’t mean a thing to the normal person, but to Sigmund Freud statements like this would become the basis for his discoveries. Freud was born in Moravia, and became a student of the well known, father of psychology, Wilhelm Wundt. It didn’t take long for Freud to come up with his own theories, and when he did he changed the science of psychology forever.
Freud wasn’t the first one to come up with the conscious mind, although he is credited for making it popular, he did in fact though come up with the preconscious mind. The preconscious mind is what we might call today, “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. Along with this theory, he added to it that besides the conscious and preconscious mind there are even smaller parts.
Freud came up with three parts of are personality, the id, ego, and super ego. The i...

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