Question

Charise and Noreen were having a conversation about men. "You know," Noreen said, "I think my husband tries to annoy me! Even though he tries to do what I ask, I think that subconsciously he really enjoys ticking me off to see the reactions he'll get. Freud must have been right!" Charise, who has just studied personality psychology in school, corrects Noreen by saying which of the following?
a. "You're probably right, Noreen. Freud was really into subconscious motives."
b. "Freud's theory has absolutely no validity in modern times, Noreen. Stop analyzing your husband!"
c. "Well, Noreen, there really is no 'subconscious' in Freud's theory!"
d. "Freud really didn't address the psychological functioning of men, Noreen, only women."

Answer 1

Charise, who has just studied personality psychology in school, corrects Noreen by saying

a. "You're probably right, Noreen. Freud was really into subconscious motives."

Explanation:

In Sigmund Freud's theory subconscious is present as the plane of consciousness that is not readily accessible but operates from the back of our minds and makes sense of our actions that do not seem done consciously.

One of the telltale signs of this is actions like this which have little basis in actual reasons but people do anyway because they enjoy them or their subconscious is telling them to do them. One of these is also the famous Freudian slip