Having had story built in with childhood, a person is usually in better relation with the pathologized material of obscene, grotesque, or cruel images that appear spontaneously in dream and fantasy.
Those who hold to the rationalist and associationist theory of mind, who put reason against and superior to imagination, argue that if we did not put in such grim tales in early impressionable years, we would have less pathology and more rationality in later years.
My practice shows me rather that the more attuned and experienced is the imaginative side of personality the less threatening the irrational, the less necessity for repression, and therefore the less actual pathology acted out in literal, daily events.
— A Note On Story, Inhuman Relations, UE 7