his insistence on the hiddenness of God and the knowability of man, were reduced to nothingness and terror by any dream. Man’s unconscious witnesses in dreams to his burden of guilt concerning the past, his impotence in the present, and his ignorance and dread of the future. When latter-day wise men, starting with Freud, began, however mistakenly, to turn to dreams and the unconscious with a more systematic searching, it was the beginning of man’s epistemological self-consciousness, and Freudianism