rediscovery as a byproduct

Nietzsche understood something that I did not find explicitly stated in his work: that growth in knowledge - or in anything - cannot proceed without the Dionysian. It reveals matters that we can select at some point, given that we have optionality. In other words, it can be the source of stochastic tinkering, and the Apollonian can be part of the rationality in the selection process.
Antifragile - Nicholas Nassim Taleb (Page 256)
Freud understood much better than Münsterberg did the immense power of the unconscious, but he thought that repression, rather than a dynamic act of creation on the part of the unconscious, was the reason for the gaps and inaccuracies in our memory; while Münsterberg understood much better than Freud did the mechanics and the reasons for memory distortion and loss - but had no sense at all of the unconscious processes that created them.
Subliminal - Leonard Mlodinow (Page 62-63)

We kept rediscovering the same dichotomy throughout the history:

  • Apollonian vs. Dionysian (Literature)
  • Rational vs. Irrational (Philosophy)
  • Conscious vs. Unconscious (Psychology)

Rediscovery is a byproduct of containerisation and can be avoided by greater multi-disciplinarianness.