Left unchecked, the drive can be self-destructive, but when brought to the conscious mind through analysis, it can be mastered, as Freud had demonstrated with hysterical patients. Religion ...

“Mental and conscious used to mean the same thing ... The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, edited by Mark Solms, is available here.

Freudian psychology is based on the work of Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939 ... The ego included conscious processes as well as unconscious “defense mechanisms” erected to ...

Sigmund Freud was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire ... she would talk of things she did not remember in the conscious state, and afterwards her symptoms were relieved -- thus it was called ...