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Is it possible to probe the depths of your own mind, to psychoanalyze yourself, including your unconscious thoughts and feelings during childhood? For example, if I consciously loved playing baseball as a child, how would I know if I unconsciously hated the game?
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I should think so, although to which extent would definitely be a matter of the person in question, how they would do it, what kinds of issues they would be working with, etc. etc....
With your example, if it were the case, it'd be possible to review everything you remember regarding it and pay close attention to the feelings that you have... things like who was there and how it felt to relate with them, what brought you to play baseball in the first place and the way you felt about that, how it actually felt to run or swing or to wait, whether or not there were people in the audience that you wanted to pay attention to you in a certain way, etc. etc. etc...
One of the most crucial aspects of being able to do this I think would be honesty and not guarding yourself from either feeling bad or from seeing yourself in a bad light.