LOL. Double LOL. Voegelin at his most helpful ;)
Sometimes the "most obvious" things are at the same time the most illusive in terms of rational analysis and thus, the most difficult to understand. But if they are "absent" to the conscious mind then perhaps this is only due to their sheer familiarity and ubiquity on the level of the unconscious mind....
Now there's a paradox for you! But IMHO there's a truth buried there....