I think that over the course of a decade, my T only shared about a half dozen deep insights. Understanding the unconscious very much informed the way he thought and how he conceptualized a client's situation. But he would engage with me about whatever my presenting difficulties were, and by working those issues through over and over, I would get to the point of readiness to hear an insight in a way that was open, non-threatening, and useful to me. That's the work of therapy. I don't see the effectiveness of using insight in place of working through. It seems to me that insight used in that way interrupts the process. The insight is the end of the road, not the beginning.