At that time many thinkers regarded conscious reason as normal and self-explanatory while the unconscious was regarded as mysterious, needing proof, and needing explanation.  Repression was the explanation, and the unconscious was filled with thoughts which could have been conscious but which repression and dream work had distorted.  Today we think of consciousness as the mysterious, and of the computational methods of the unconscious, e.g., primary processs, as continually active, necessary, and all-embracing.      These considerations are especially relevant in any attempt to derive a theory of art or poetry.  Poetry is not a sort of distorted and decorated prose, but rather prose is poetry which has been stripped down and pinned to a Procrustean bed of logic...      In the cliché system of Anglo-Saxons, it is commonly assumed that it would be somehow better if what is unconscious were made conscious.  Freud, even, is said to have said, "Where id was, there ego shall be," as though such an increase in conscious knowledge and control would be both possible and, of course, an improvement.  This view is the product of an almost totally distorted epistemology and a totally distorted view of what sort of thing a man, or any other organism, is.

Gregory Bateson 1967, p.136