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Finnegans Wake (p. 301). But for centuries to come the West
chose to be motivated by this simple mechanism and to live as
in a dream from which artists strove to awaken us. Whyte says
(pp. 59­60):
There have probably been individuals in every culture who
knew that the factors of which we are not directly aware
influence thought and behavior. As I have suggested, this
recognition must have been widespread, for example in
China where a more balanced and unified view of mind
than that of Cartesian Europe was prevalent in some
periods.
So far as the present book is concerned, it is not helpful
to talk about the unconscious as the domain of the unknown,
or as an area more profound than ordinary consciousness. Even