Koenigsberg, Richard (July 7, 2021)

To discover the (repressed) unconscious, look outward--at the world we have created. "That" is us. The primal resistance is pretending it's coming from "out there." That the world is other-than-the-self. 

What is "history?" What is right now? It's a projection of who we are; of the repressed unconscious. It's possible to become conscious of the unconscious by looking outward. However, then another form of repression (denial) occurs: It has nothing to do with us. It's imposed upon us from "up above."

Brown, Norman O. (1959/1985). Life against Death: the Psychoanalytic meaning of History. (page 148)

"If we retain the original insight that reenactment is a prerequisite for gaining consciousness of the repressed unconscious, we must suppose that there is no direct channel of communication between consciousness and the repressed unconscious, with the result that the repressed unconscious energies must go out into external reality before they can be perceived by consciousness. 

Freud: “Anything arising from within that seeks to become conscious must try to transform itself into external perceptions. The repressed impulses must first find real objects in the external world and attach themselves to the real objects before their nature can become manifest to the subject.”