The unconscious is the hidden storehouse of the past, both individual and collective. It is the repository of centuries of propaganda, of all the experience and knowledge, the traditions and complexities of the race. However clever you or the analyst may be, the conscious mind cannot approach the unconscious by way of analysis. Through analysis, you can only scratch the surface of the unconscious; you cannot go into it very deeply – as I think most analysts and psychologists would now agree. The conscious mind has been educated and trained in a particular direction; it has acquired technical knowledge along certain lines so that one may gain a livelihood, which is called the positive approach to life, but such an approach to the unconscious is not possible.

From Collected Works, Vol. 13

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