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I have been thinking about the proposed “storyteller” and it’s “concern for simplicity, logical consistency, and certainty”, whether or not this is in fact an “unconscious part of the conscious”, and whether/to what degree one can train’s one conscious/storyteller to be content with complexity/chaos/inconsistency/uncertainty. Would that be desirable? Or an avenue to greater “mental health”? Or is a concern by the “storyteller” for those things needed to ensure the interaction with the unconscious, and the creation of new stories/understandings/perspectives? And a greater conflict between the conscious/unconscious an opportunity to improve one’s “mental health”? Something I’ve also been thinking about is feelings and emotion. In class, “feelings” were discussed as located in the conscious, as “stories”, but I can’t reconcile this. It seems to me reports like “I feel sad”, etc. are the stories but that feelings, the emotions, fit better in the unconscious and provide the “stuff’ for those very interpretations.