represents a small amount of mental activity an individual is aware of (McLeod, 2018) The subconscious is the memory area that a person could become conscious of by recalling stored information According to Freud (trans Freud, 2005; McLeod, 2018), the most significant and most substantial portion of mind is the unconscious, that people are not aware of, that mostly governs people’s behavior See Figure Conscious Subconscious Unconscious Figure Freud's model of mind Mind is like an iceberg with at least three levels: conscious, subconscious, and unconscious Comparing the Eastern and Western psychology, Ahamkara (Sanskrit: sense of Iness) is a broader concept than ego Ahamkara (Sanskrit: ego) spans the entire spectrum of I-ness, from lowest animal’s efforts to maintain its integrity, through normal ego development, and beyond (Rama et al., 2014) However, in Vedantic philosophy of mind, ahamkara is more restrictive in its function, compared to the ego concept in the Western psychology Ahamkara is just a boundary that separate I from not-I Ahamkara is not an active decision-making and thought producing agent like the Western psychology’s ego 186