Sigmund Freud’s Three Levels of Mind

Three levels of Mind.
Existing in our psyche.
According to Freud.
Psychological forces.
Interacting together.

Three different levels.
With degrees of consciousness.
First — the Preconscious.
At subliminal levels.
Yet, potentially conscious.

Next is the Conscious.
With thoughts, memories, feelings.
Storehouse of wishes —
All that we are aware of.
Like reading now this poem.

Rational or not.
The conscious gives us voices.
Our “yeses “ and our “nays.”
Center of opinions.
Including our biases.

The Unconscious Mind.
The site of Freud’s third level.
Hidden — and not seen.
A reservoir of feelings.
Beyond our comprehension.

Contains all “vices.”
Feelings, thoughts, and memories.
Subterranean.
Undesirable thoughts —
Laden with anxieties.

Harboring conflicts.
Unpleasant pain and feelings.
Ask Dr. Jekyll.
It’s his Hyde’s “hiding spaces.”
It’s his secret residence.

Three levels of Mind.
All compressed like an iceberg.
The conscious surfaced.
Considered “The Tipping Point.”
Glittering, but not quite gold.

Below the conscious.
Submerging and out of view.
Is the preconscious.
Visibility not clear.
Still within our awareness.

Yet even deeper.
Far beneath the “waterline.”
The Great Unconscious.
Ever present — yet unseen.
The “seabed” of our essence.

Freud’s offer to us.
Therapeutic remedies.
Remain a key tool.
Of psychoanalysis.
Through research and case studies.

Three levels of Mind.
Existing in our psyche.
According to Freud.
Psychological forces.
Interacting together.