The key, the questions, cannot be hidden or forgotten. They must be asked. They must be answered. Yes, indeed it can. Holding it in consistent consciousness can cause the thing to dehydrate.
Transformation is no more complicated than that.
Being bound to one's intuition promotes a confident reliance on it, no matter what. The instinctual nature has the miraculous ability to live through all positive boon, all negative consequence, and still maintain relationship to self, to another. To love pleasure takes little. To love truly takes a hero who can manage his own fear. Afeared or not, it is an act of deepest love to allow oneself to be stirred by the wildish soul of another.