Most people’s relationship to their inner life follows one of two patterns. The first is suppression: the inner voices, images, fantasies, and figures that arise spontaneously are ignored, overridden, or treated as noise to be managed. The second is passive identification: the inner material floods the person, they are swept away by moods, overwhelmed by fantasies, imprisoned by recurring thought patterns that they cannot step back from or examine. Both patterns share a crucial feature: the person and the unconscious material are never in genuine dialogue. The person is either refusing the conversation or being swallowed by it. The middle...