ence from the first days of our lives. It relates to human behavior, because our repressed thoughts are stored in the unconscious and can cause neurosis. The conscious mind is unaware of the unconscious, which plays a powerful indirect influence on all that we think and do. The unconscious typically holds our memories that we aren't aware of but if needed can bring back up to the conscious. It also contains are repressed thoughts and urges, including our basic needs for food and sex.
             Psychoanalysis is, according to Freud, a rational method of finding out the contents of the unconscious and explaining what purpose it serves. Freud says that a skilled therapist can bring the repressed thought up into consciousness, allow all the neurotic emotions to be properly released, and through this process bring the behavior to a level of awareness that allows it to be controlled. Psychoanalysis can help remove
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