1100 Words You Need to Know  Week 37 Day 3   1100 Words You Need to Know Week 37 Day 3    New Words    motivate – rationalize –  therapy  –  nascent  – iconoclast    Words in Context   The Mind’s Secrets  The study of the  human mind  and behavior has had many  prominent  practitioners, but no one is more revered* than  Sigmund Freud . An Austrian  physician , he is said to be the father of  psychoanalysis . He taught that man has a  subconscious mind  in which he keeps  repugnant * memories that come to the surface surreptitiously* and motivate behavior. Man often tries to rationalize his actions, when,  in reality , they are really the result of suppressed memories coming to the surface. Freud’s  approach  to the disturbed person was to attempt  therapy  by examining the dreams that make  cognizant * what the cause of the illness might be. Only with the airing of  delet...