ABSTRACT
Freud undertook his self-analysis, which came to a comparative conclusion with his writing "The Interpretation of Dreams". Two other implications of the dynamic viewpoint had a greater effect on Freud's thinking: the concept of conflict suggested to Freud that the mind must have a built-in readiness for or tendency toward internal conflicts. One of Freud's greatest strokes of genius was that, whereas most people tended to think in terms of either neurological activity or conscious mental functioning, Freud was able to conceive of a psychological life consisting of wishes, fantasies, dreams, and other mental activities that exist in the same sense that the external world exists. Freud suggested a reason for their tendency to reject unconsciousness namely, the blow to their self-esteem that their vaunted Consciousness of mental processes is distinctly limited rather than all-important. Freud's discovery that Consciousness is only a small and relatively insignificant part of mental functioning was yet another blow to their self-esteem.
