Editing Subconscious (section)

== Analytical psychology ==

[[Carl Jung]] said that since there is a limit to what can be held in conscious focal awareness, an alternative storehouse of one's knowledge and prior experience is needed.<ref>{{cite book|title=Man and his Symbols|url=https://archive.org/details/manhissymbols00jung|url-access=registration|last1=Jung|first1=Carl|date=1964|publisher=Doubleday|isbn=978-0-385-05221-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/manhissymbols00jung/page/37 37]|chapter=Approaching the unconscious|quote=Such material has mostly become unconscious because — in a manner of speaking — there is no room for it in the conscious mind. Some of one's thoughts lose their emotional energy and become subliminal (that is to say, they no longer receive so much of our conscious attention) because they have come to seem uninteresting or irrelevant, or because there is some reason why we wish to push them out of sight. It is, in fact, normal and necessary for us to "forget" in this fashion, in order to make room in our conscious minds for new impressions and ideas. If this did not happen, everything we experienced would remain above the threshold of consciousness and our minds would become impossibly cluttered.|author-link1=Carl Jung}}</ref>