translate English to German: How, Dr Goodheart wonders, would Hock feel if it turned out that the "ahistorical core of the unconscious" eventually proves not to be so "ahistorical" after all, but rather, in particular patients, consists of some disintegrated trauma experience.
Diese Einsichten, so anstrengend der Weg zu ihnen ist, führen bei Dr. Gutherz eine große Erleichterung herbei.