unconscious

This is where desires or memories the individual cannot handle or express reside. They come out during dreams, hypnosis, or times of neuroses.

Understanding the unconscious could lead to understanding the conscious mind as well because the unconscious affects the conscious.

Automatic writing—writers use the idea of the unconscious. They pay no attention to rules of grammar, syntax, or style; they free their unconscious.

Salvador Dali is an example of an artist influenced by Freud. Surrealism (1917-1966) responds to Freud’s ideas, especially free association and automatic response.