Today, long after Sigmund Freud introduced the world to the fact that much of what we do is determined by mysterious memories and emotional forces, the depths of the mind and the brain are being explored anew. While these events are all superficially unrelated, each reveals an aspect of a rich inner life that is not a part of conscious, much less rational, thought. Welcome to evidence of your robust unconscious at work. Or how about the now incomprehensible reasons you married your spouse in the first place? The expression on your spouse's face that inexplicably makes you feel either amorous or enraged. The desire to drink Coke rather than Pepsi or to drive a Mustang rather than a Prius. The song that constantly runs through your head whenever you close your office door.
Your unconscious is making your everyday decisions Mysteries of the mind ENGL 2210 World Literature II
