Sometimes there’s a part of us that would rather not know too much, like noticing a frightening figure in the background of a picture and wanting to look away. When it comes to the emotional world, this ‘looking away’ process shows up in how we unconsciously inhibit our capacity to think by staying out of touch with how we really feel. Over time, feelings begin to develop an alien quality to them, eventually becoming frightening as we let our fantasies about them run wild. We