What's the difference between subconscious and unconscious?

1, essential difference: Unconsciousness is the unconscious but conscious part of consciousness. The subconscious should belong to the unconscious part, because it is hidden under the consciousness, so that the consciousness can't find its existence. Obviously it is in line with people's personality characteristics.

2. The difference of driving ability: Unconsciously, its "decision" is in line with reason and the interests of the parties. Many normal behaviors of people are dominated by the unconscious. Different from the normal unconscious, the subconscious involves the desires, motives, thoughts and events that the victim dare not face. Many normal behaviors of people are dominated by the unconscious.

3. Difference of final result: Unconsciousness is the result of human evolution and a function of saving attention resources. The role of consciousness still exists, which will appear in dreams and behind melodramatic behavior. Subconscious is a by-product of human culture, moral consciousness and social form.

4. Different forms of influence: The subconscious sometimes mixes with the general unconscious, which exerts a subtle influence on people's motives. But the more common forms of potential meaning are distorted, melodramatic and abnormal. This is also the key point to discover the subconscious and distinguish the unconscious.

The concept of subconscious was also put forward by Freud.

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The influence of Freud's spiritual achievements;

This theory expounds that people's spiritual activities, including desire, impulse, thinking, fantasy, judgment, decision and emotion, will occur and proceed at different levels of consciousness. Different levels of consciousness include consciousness, pre-consciousness and subconscious, which exist as different levels of the crust, so they are called spiritual levels.

Consciousness is self-consciousness. Any psychological activity that people can perceive is consciousness, which belongs to the surface of people's psychological structure, perceives the external realistic environment and stimulation, and reflects and summarizes the rational content of things with language.

Pre-consciousness is an intermediary mechanism to regulate consciousness and unconsciousness. Pre-consciousness is a part of consciousness, which can be recalled and summoned to conscious consciousness. Its function is more reflected in preventing the subconscious from entering the consciousness. It plays the role of "testing", and the subconscious full of instinctive impulses is mostly controlled by it, so it is impossible to become pre-consciousness, let alone enter consciousness.

Subconsciousness (also called unconsciousness, translated into English as subconsciousness) is an unconscious psychological activity suppressed under consciousness and pre-consciousness, which represents a deeper, more secret, more primitive and more fundamental psychological energy of human beings. "Subconscious" is the internal driving force of all human behaviors, which includes human primitive impulses, various instincts (mainly sexual instincts) and various desires related to instincts.

Because the subconscious mind is primitive, brutish and barbaric, which cannot be tolerated by social reason, it is suppressed under the threshold of consciousness (the so-called consciousness valve refers to the dividing line between consciousness and unconsciousness), but it has not been eliminated.

It is always kept in the dark and requires direct or indirect satisfaction. It is these things that dominate people's whole psychology and behavior at a deep level and become the source of all people's motives and intentions. The concept of subconsciousness is the core of psychoanalysis and the theoretical basis of Freud.