ABSTRACT
The Unconscious is the creative core of the personality; Trust knows when something comes from it and when it does not. But the thing itself can never be reached. It is itself. This chapter explores what is it that is unconscious. It is a very good question because the answer is quite different from Freud's conception. For Freud something is unconscious because there is a sexual desire the knowledge of which is resisted and, because resisted, the knowledge is repressed and therefore not known. Trust then is that knowledge that discriminates between these two motivational forces. It is important to realize however that no motive is ever entirely pure; there is always a mixture; what we want to know is which is dominant. If all human knowledge were divided into two parts, one common to all, the other peculiar to the learned, the latter would seem very small compared to the former.
