Question

What are “unconscious motivations?” Are they a problematic explanation for female circumcision? Why?

Answer 1

Unconscious motivations are hidden desires that people do without understanding why they do them.For example if one breaks away from a marriage and has explanations for it superficially rather than the actual motive.According to Sigmund Freud only a small part is in the conscious awareness and the major part is in the subconscious mind.Human behaviour is from the repressed unconscious state that control human beings.Unconscious mind compresses of mental processes that are not accessible to the conscious but influence feelings and behaviour.