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How Did Freud Determine The Three Levels Of Mind

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Freud was not only advancing on explanation of a significant illness, but he also was proposing a revolutionary new theory of the human psyche itself. As a result of Freud’s clinical researches, psychoanalytic theory emerged and these searches let him to propose that there were at least three levels of mind. To show the levels of mind and to describe he features of the mind’s function, Freud designed a topographical model of the mind and he used the Iceberg analogy to determine the three levels of mind. Freud's attack upon the traditional psychology of consciousness comes from pretty distinct way. He paralleled the mind to an iceberg where the small area shows top and water symbolizes the zone of consciousness while the much bigger mass

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