PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -The top of the iceberg that you can see above the water represents the conscious mind. The part of the iceberg that is submerged below the water, but is still visible, is the preconscious.

Detailed explanation-2: -The image serves as an illustrative metaphor for Freud’s theory of the mind: Only a fragment of our ideas and feelings are conscious or “visible” to us, while the vast bulk of our mental content is unconscious or “invisible” to everyday introspection.

Detailed explanation-3: -the notion that conscious events, like the proverbial tip of the iceberg, represent only a small and accessible aspect of a larger domain of unconscious psychological functioning. Although this metaphor is commonly attributed to Sigmund Freud, it appears nowhere in his published works.

Detailed explanation-4: -“The mind is like an iceberg; it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.” –Sigmund Freud, Founder of Psychoanalysis. “What’s powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know.” –Jim Rohn, Entrepreneur.

Detailed explanation-5: -The analogy he used for how the three work together is an iceberg in water. The conscious mind is the part of the iceberg that is above the surface of the water. Just below the surface of the water lies the preconscious. The unconscious mind is below the preconscious and is deep below the surface of the water.