A Psychoanalytic understanding of the unconscious

Unconscious is the central concept of various psychoanalytic approaches (and even most of cognitive psychology). While descriptions of the unconscious existed before psychoanalysis, the idea of dynamic unconscious, which constantly influences our conscious choices, decisions, and attitudes, has given rise to a new science and practice. In this video, various conceptions of unconscious and evidence for its existence and power are reviewed.
Part of a lecture by Professor Aleksandar Dimitrijevic at Mittelweg 50 in Berlin 23 of February 2019 for Berlin Psychoanalytic.
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The unconscious cannot be "reprogrammed" as it is not a program to begin with. The closest thing to reprogramming would be therapy. It's not like your mind is a kind of tape recorder you own, and you can record and erase anything you want with it. It's part of yourself. If anyone tries to sell you the idea that it is programmable, they're trying to rip you off. Even hypnosis is limited in its possibilities: it may modify a part of your mind, but not reprogram your whole mind. The metaphor of the mind as a computer is only an analogy.