... ironically have harmonizing views on people's actions and state of mind. Freud's ideas suggest that people are ruled to a large degree by their subconscious. Nevertheless, people are judged by their actions and not by their subconscious yearnings and agendas. In result, Hester is branded as an adulteress for her actions, but unlike her weak lover, Dimmesdale, she took her ostracism ... very seriously and wore her 'A' proudly. In that way, she rebelled against the community and its unconscious neurotic values. Hawthorne uses Hester's character as a reflection of the subconscious urges of...

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... ironically have harmonizing views on people's actions and state of mind. Freud's ideas suggest that people are ruled to a large degree by their subconscious. Nevertheless, people are judged by their actions and not by their subconscious yearnings and agendas. In result, Hester is branded as an adulteress for her actions, but unlike her weak lover, Dimmesdale, she took her ostracism ... very seriously and wore her 'A' proudly. In that way, she rebelled against the community and its unconscious neurotic values. Hawthorne uses Hester's character as a reflection of the subconscious urges of...

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• Grade Level: High School

... can be done through meditation.) The final group consists of our most common, everyday thoughts. Psychologists have subdivided consciousness into three separate, but interdependent levels of thought: the conscious, the subconscious and the unconscious. The conscious mind is the one we use to rationalize, to make logical inductions, to count the change at the supermarket or to read. The ... subconscious mind controls all the involuntary process of the body (i.e. the regulation of sleep, respiration, digestion, blood circulation and so on). The unconscious mind is a "warehouse" of all our...

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• Grade Level: High School