It is commonly argued that people are not to blame for unconscious motives, but only for conscious ones.

I can suggest two unconscious motives of sufficient strength.

Some psychologists believe that a significant portion of human behavior is energized and directed by unconscious motives.

You don't want a president acting out of unconscious motives in a rash way.

We act as if often the patient will not know what he or she is really trying to say because of underlying unconscious motives.

Sacrificing awareness of these unconscious motives can be very costly.

Such insights into one's unconscious motives were supposed to happen in a therapist's office - not a veterinarian's.

Responses are believed to be directly linked to unconscious motives.

I thought there must be unconscious motives - you know, you get married and suddenly you're sick for a year?

Could it be that an unconscious motive in killing her children was to get back at him?