Reply To: Managing the Myth of the Void

[Tea]

That question seems like a real rabbit hole. Unconscious motivations aren't necessarily experienced on a conscious emotional level, so I think you'd have to dig even more deeply than emotion. It's still a mystery why some thoughts appear in the conscious mind and other do not. I am wondering if your unconscious mind can anticipate the psychic/emotional cost of knowing. All that comes to mind are emotional costs: The unease we feel when things don't align or facing the reality of who we are or that we must accept some social responsibility or change. These are concerns remain pre-emotional, but if these realities became conscious, we'd have to experience the consequential emotions.
I think our psyches construct worldviews that protect the self, without our consent. I take huge issue with this. More recently, I try to appreciate that the human mind is constructed for human purposes, not to understand the world as it is.
I used to think people consciously tuned things out, but I'm starting to give more credit to unconscious motivations. I've always believed them to be real, but it's frightening to realize their true power over us. Above all else, I believe the mind is self-protective.
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" - Jeremiah 17:9