“No longer is one allowed to believe that the goal of psychotherapy consists in making something conscious at any price. Becoming conscious is no more than a transitory stage in the psychotherapeutic process. It has to make conscious the unconscious–including the spiritual unconscious– only in order to allow it finally to recede back to unconsciousness. To put it in the terms of the Scholastics, what therapy has to achieve is to convert an unconscious potentia into a conscious actus, but to do so for no other reason than to restore it eventually as an unconscious habitus. It is the task of the therapist, in the final analysis, to reinstate the spontaneity and naïveté of an unreflected existential act.”
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