One philosopher said: “We are all geniuses up until the age of ten.”
Although the downsides of the takeover of the conscious mind by the unconscious mind through the individuation and psychoanalytical course or process are immense and numerous, it all leads to immense loss and pain, the upside is that it brings out a creative genius that is not found in anyone else or is rarely found in anyone else. Hence, Jung and his view that the unconscious is “the woman who secretly enslaves a man, so that he can no longer free himself from her and becomes a child again.”