unconscious drives
Submerged mental forces
Unconscious drives are motivations operating below awareness that shape behavior, desires, and emotions.
The concept comes from psychoanalytic theory, where drives toward sex, aggression, or self-preservation are thought to influence actions without the person recognizing their true source: His therapist suggested unconscious drives explained his pattern of sabotaging relationships.
The term appears in psychology, philosophy, and casual analysis of human behavior.
- compulsionsUncontrollable urges to act
- libidoInnate erotic drive
- instinctsInnate behavioral tendencies
- gut instinctImmediate unreasoned knowing
- idUnconscious instinctual drives
psychodynamics · fight or flight · fight-or-flight response · habits · sublimation · inner demons · projection · defense mechanisms · blind spot · impulsivity · repression · hidden desires · Freudian slip · unfinished business · avoidance behavior · phobias · evolutionary psychology · addiction
unconscious drivesrational thought
Logic-based mental process
reason · moral reasoning · ethical principles · executive function · cultural norms
unconscious, unconsciously, unconsciousness, conscious, consciously, consciousness, subconscious, conscience, conscientious