Mind's Eye Motive

Psychologists say that a person's conscious motives are not the real determinants of behavior but one's real motives lie in the unconscious and one is not aware of them. A person who is obsessed with cleanliness is ostensibly a very clean person but in reality he has strong instinctive sex drive which get repressed as he cannot accept them.

The question is that are we to judge ourselves or judged by others for our behavior by the conscious motives or the repressed unconscious motives ? Clearly we cannot be judged for factors of which we are not even aware even though they are the real determinants of our actions.

The question now arises of our will , is our will free ? Consciously we are free , we think and act as we want , we can open or close our hand freely. So , we have freedom of choice , and if our will is bound by unconscious determinants we cannot be held accountable for them. If unconsciously we are selfish and consciously generous , it is our generosity for which we can be judged and not the unconscious motive. So , the phantom of Bondage evaporates into thin air !

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