The Theory: Psychosexual Development

Unconscious processes strongly influence adult behaviour by shaping our emotions, habits, and reactions based on past experiences. However, self-awareness and reflection can help us understand and manage these hidden influences.

I think our unconscious mind is somewhat more active than your conscious at times. and that our unconscious behaviors and habits as the bare minimum of who we are. 

I believe the less conscious we are of our own behaviour and the less self aware we are, the more the unconscious mind is in control. 

I struggle with some of Freud's theories but I do agree with the unconscious mind and the major role that it plays in how we think of ourselves, how we process and our behaviour

  I struggle to connect to Freuds theories at times but I do believe our unconscious mind can play a role in how we are as adults - if its trauma it will expose itself in negative ways, or if its positive, it will shape our personalities. We may not remember being taken outdoors on adventures or to the beach as an infant/young child but that may shape us into adults who love being outdoors. The same wiht negative/trauma - it can shape our behaviour and cause negative actions/life choices - especially if not understood or gotten help for.

I am certain to think that the unconscious processes can influences the preconscious and conscious part of the mind, therefore influences our behaviours. While the childhood memory may fade, our physical senses retained the emotional reactions that connected with those experiences without we are being aware as an adult. Thus when these sensory memories are triggered, it can reactivate the same emotions we experienced as a child, especially if it is repeated early childhood experiences. This explains why someone experiences strong emotions when their needs or desires are not satisfied. 

I think unconscious processes can influence adult behaviour in some cases.

I think through counselling we can help clients to become aware of these influences to understand patterns which they may unknowingly be stuck in. 

I do believe that we sit with things in our unconsciousness and that if they are traumatic, it is best to visit them, so they do not revisit us at the wrong time. 

Unconscious processes according to Freud, are stored and later influence our behaviours as adults through associative thoughts. We may not be fully aware of the influences they have until we delve deeper down, which can be traumatic experiences manifesting or even positive experiences that appear the norm to us. These complexes should be acknowledged after being understood to become more fulfilled. 

The 'unconscious mind' is a key part of Freud's theory - to what extent do you think unconscious processes influence our behaviour as adults

Unconscious processes influence our behavior as adults. The more we can associate our experiences, good or bad, and relate them to how we were raised, alot of sense can be made of why we are the way we are.  This gives us a chance to change cycles once we have recognised and done work around where they came from.

I think the unconscious processes shape a lot of our adult behaviour. Early experiences of trauma can create patterns we dont always notice, personally my hyper independence  or oral fixation (vaping). Becoming aware of these patterns has helped me make intentional choices.

i think the unconcious play an important role in how we become as adults but i do think individuals have the ability to make chnages in future and recognise patterns to make positive chnages. other influences and factors can force these changes too

I find Freud’s concept of the unconscious mind particularly significant in situations where adult behavior cannot be obviously linked to current circumstances. For example, an adult raised in a loving family might somehow struggle to trust others or form genuine relationships later in life. Freud’s theory provides a valuable framework for exploring these “hidden” influences, helping us understand how early experiences, internal conflicts, or instinctual drives can shape behaviors that are otherwise difficult to trace or explain.

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I believe the unconscious mind hugely influences our behaviour as adults.  The mind (conscious and unconscious) is like a storage device of life's experiences, good or bad, from all stages of life and these experiences (regardless of if we are aware or unaware, or can remember or cannot remember them) absolutely influence our behaviour.  We cannot remember exactly what happened to us in the early stages of our life, these experiences are stored in the mind and go on to influence the mind later in how it tells us to behave - coming from our unconscious.  We are exposed to things during our life which we are not conscious of having an impact, but it shapes the way our mind acts or reacts to situations affecting our behaviour - coming from our unconscious.  People who are not very self aware could possibly have many aspects of their life which are stored in their mind and unconsciously comes out in their behaviour.  Trauma which has been repressed goes on to affected how we behave from our unconscious.

While I find it difficult to connect with certain examples provided by Freud, I do believe that various experiences we encounter in life, whether traumatic or insignificant, can leave a lasting imprint on our unconscious mind. Our mind is an incredibly powerful instrument, capable of retaining vast amounts of information and shaping our thoughts and actions over time.

I think unconsciouses processes hugely influence our behaviour. It makes sense to me that we start forming beliefs, fears, desires etc from our very first experiences onwards which will form our patterns of behaviour and expression, our coping strategies, our motivations, the lens through which we interpret the world... all on a mostly unconscious level.    

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I also find freud's therories a bit strange and he seemed to have alot going on in his head. I do believe that our unconscious mind plays a huge part in our behaviour.  I believe that's sometimes where intuition comes from.

I find Freuds theories difficult to accept at times. It feels like his personal fixations dictate his theories. That said, he does make a good point. Our unconscious mind influences our behaviour and lays the foundation of our personality as we develop. Whether we subconsciously act in opposition to it or respond naturally due to our upbringing, it is ultimately our unconscious thoughts that brought this into action.

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I definitely believe that our unconscious mind plays a huge role in how we behave.  We often act on instinct and respond emotionally to certain things without thinking. This could be from past experiences that we are not conscious of.

I believe our unconscious mind influences our behaviour in many ways. I think the extent possibly depends on the person's ability for self-awareness.

I think unconscious processes influence adults much more than they realise. Hence, i suppose the fact it is unconscious lol.

I do believe we have an unconscious mind, and I am sure this influences our behavior as adults strongly. 

I must respectfully add: I do not resonate with most of Freud's thoughts on humans. I think that he described the structure of the human psyche very well, but what he filled the structure with, I believe, was heavily influenced by his own life experience and should not be broadly applied to everyone. I find Carl Jung has further developed much of Freud's Theory into a more holistic approach. 

Hugely, I think a lot of what you experience as a child gets codified into the way you act before you can understand a lot of what happens around you. This then forms behavioral patterns and biases you can't fact-check without first learning about the world at large and your world as a child and then going back inward and unpacking what the outcomes you presently experience, were originally based on.

While it's hard to imagine that eg how a child was potty trained will (as the video showed) impact on someone's personality is in their adult life - I do think that some of how we act as adults is due to unconscious processes.  Whether the subconscious stores memories of childhood and we remember these and are influenced by them on a daily basis, as Freud suggests, I am less sure about this.  Although, if someone has had a traumatic/neglectful upbringing, I am sure that would impact them/influence their behaviour. 

I definitely believe the unconscious influences our behaviour as adults, often showing up as triggers or automatic reactions to certain people or situations.  Sometimes we don't know why we behave in certain ways, and wonder why habits are so hard to break, because unconscious patterns will usually win over willpower in the long run.

I think unconscious processes have a strong influence on our behaviour as adults, even gut feelings can come down to unconscious processes, for example if your unconscious mind is sensing a situation is not safe, or you have been in this risky or unpleasant situation before, I have had experiences when it really feels like my gut is trying to tell me something and I need to listen to it, and this is all happening unconsciously, its very intuitive. Also unconscious bias could occur through the unconscious mind, having thoughts or feelings about a person or culture or race, without actually wanting to act on them, unconsciously our behaviour could change towards that person. 

I think the unconscious process influences our behaviour as adults in the long run of life as it rejuvenates memories and from childhood. The unconscious process stores experiences good or bad, depending on how we dealt with it in our childhood times vs adulthood can impact and influence our behaviour as adults. 

I think it significantly influences our adult behavior. Our behaviors are driven by memories and thoughts and desires buried in our unconscious mind. Those hidden sources can shape  how we are in relationships, habits, fears and emotional reactions. Our minds are doing a lot of work beneath the surface and that shapes us.

I believe the idea of an unconscious mind to have great merit. As we move through our lives and experience different things, naturally we begin to process these learnings and attach feelings to them. This may be why we are more sensitive or susceptible to certain things, and may elicit strong reactions/emotions as a result of our learnings. An example in a book or film could be the protagonist, having engaged in a violent or shameful act, repressing these feelings to the point where they no longer believe that they have done said thing. This can also be the case for witnessing something traumatic. They may have distanced themselves so tremendously from the issue that it presents itself in a psychological issue, or isn't present until there is some kind of trigger. This is because, even though they've mentally checked out, the body still remembers. 

I think our unconscious processes influence our behaviour in many ways, from our physical and verbal reactions to events, to our internal and external emotions. It is all connected, pathways were created neurogically from birth, if were concious of it of not we behave in relation to those pathways.

I think the unconscious has a lot of influence on our adulthood. Unconscious thoughts in childhood become our inner belief systems that we take into every relationship moving forward. If the unhealthy ones aren't dealt with, they can have a negative impact moving forward. I think EMDR might be strongly linked to this theory.