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Conscious - What Is the Conscious Mind?

By Kendra Van Wagner, About.com

Definition: In Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality, the conscious mind includes everything that is inside of our awareness. This is the aspect of our mental processing that we can think and talk about in a rational way.

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