God Arises
Argument for the Life Hereafter
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thoughts are preserved, for ever in the form in
which they first existed. And even if we so desired,
we could not eradicate them from our memory.
Such investigations have revealed that the human
personality does not have its basis only in the
conscious part of the brain. On the contrary, there is
another major part of the human personality which
exists below the level of consciousness. Freud
dubbed this part the subconscious, or unconscious.
The human personality is rather like an iceberg
whose tip—one ninth part of its total volume—is
visible above the ocean’s surface, while the rest—a
massive eight ninths—lies submerged, and
therefore hidden from view. It is in this hidden part,
the subconscious, that all of our thoughts and
intentions are preserved. In his thirty-first lecture,
Freud elaborates:
The laws of logic—above all, the law of
contradiction—do not hold for processes in
the id. Contradictory impulses exist side by
side without neutralising each other or
drawing apart; at most they combine in
compromise-formations
under
the
overpowering economic pressure towards
