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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by a

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metaphor used by Freud which knowing Freud is probably entirely inappropriate [Freud wearing a suit]

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for this video here's our question Freud used which of the following as a

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metaphor to represent his theory of consciousness and here are the potential

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answers mountain, lake, iceberg egg, rising sun.. hmm well to start

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Freud's theory of personality highlighted the distinction between the

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conscious free conscious and unconscious mind did you think all these things were [A gekko changing colors]

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packed up together in one nice little egg or something well not quite while an

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egg-cellent choice answer D isn't what we're looking for Freud stated that the

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conscious mind is all that were aware of at any given moment but he didn't state [an eyeball following a flying bug]

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that it went up and down in any sort of rising or setting motions..How about B?

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well he did state that pre-conscious mind includes things that were not aware [a chest floating in the ocean]

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of but it can call any consciousness easily but he didn't feel like they all

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swarm around together in a large body of water so B is a sinking ship let's [a chest, sofa, basketball and a paper pad sink in the ocean]

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move on as far as the unconscious goes Freud said that it included feelings

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emotions thoughts and desires that we can't gain access to even though it all [person thinking about emotions, thoughts and desires and gekko appears]

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influences our behavior but Freud wasn't big on mountain so it looks like

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our answer is C. Frued used the iceberg as a metaphor as the consciousness is

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just the tip of the iceberg that we directly access above the surface of the [Freud by the tip of an iceberg labelled consciousness]

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water as you can see the metaphor works pretty well although who knows if it'll

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stand the test of time given the current state of global warming and all

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that [iceberg melts in the water]

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