
Our Unconscious
The below is an excerpt taken from the Netflix series Freud, Set in the early 1800’s. In this scene Freud is trying to convince a room full of doctors and professors that we have an unconscious. I loved his description of our unconscious mind. ‘I am a house, in me it is dark. My consciousness is a solitary light, a candle caught in a draft. It flickers. One minute this way, then the other. Everything else lies in the shadows, everything else lies within the unconsciousness. B