When Imagination Becomes Dangerous

In art, consciousness threatens imagination only when there is an excess of rational control that can suppress spontaneity; however, complete surrender to the unconscious can also lead to chaos rather than true art.

When consciousness is absent, the artist may fall into projections—for example, a director who begins to believe that a character from a book is a real person in their life and starts confusing their internal projection with reality. This is a phenomenon that can be encountered in artistic circles.

If consciousness is too dominant, it suppresses imagination and the spontaneous flow of creation; if it is completely absent, form, structure, meaning, and contact with real life are lost.

Therefore, the goal is not to reject consciousness, but to establish a balance between consciousness and the unconscious.

Artists do not fail because of the unconscious, but because of imbalance.

–Tea Franca