How Ignoring the Unconscious Keeps You Trapped in a Limiting Identity: A Jungian Perspective

Our isolation from the unconscious is synonymous with our isolation from our souls, from the life of the spirit. It results in the loss of our religious life, for it is in the unconscious that we find our individual conception of God and experience our deities. The religious function—this inborn demand for meaning and inner experience—is cut off wi... See more

Understanding what the unconscious is trying to communicate means learning its symbolic language. Without this understanding, the unconscious images that rise above the surface of our consciousness in dreams and fantasies will be lost on us, and we’ll miss what they have to teach us.

Beyond involuntary and compulsive behaviour, there are two ways the unconscious bridges the gap to speak to the conscious mind: dreams and imagination .