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Insight (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠more lasting in its effect when it dawns slowly than when it takes the form of a fitful idealism.

Insight (n.) into ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠causes is not cure: many patients know the cause of their complexes down to the last detail without being helped — knowing typhoid comes from the water does not stop the pollution.

Insight (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠dawns slowly has more lasting effects than a fitful idealism.

Insight (n.) into ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠unconscious motives is widely feared to ruin conscious performance — at most it changes the conscious attitude.

Insight (n.) cannot ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠cure a neurosis built on a wrong, however brilliant it is: the clever young man with a flawless self-analysis stayed ill while living off a poor schoolteacher's savings.

Insight (n.) disposes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠completely only of contents that do not mean much anyway; numinous complexes change form but keep their autonomy, and repressed they return negatively, as the devil a magician binds fetches him in the end.