Irrational And Unconscious Mind In Carl Jung's Poems

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had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He lay on his……
Getting an idea, of a thirsty crow, how to raise surface of water by putting pebbles in the pitcher and finding oneself in his bed transformed, in a worm, in both the cases, everyday logic has been breached out. Why would someone create a phenomenon that cannot be possible in conscious world, and how a human mind is capable of creating it- where theses strange ideas come from? Carl Jung in his book “Man and his symbols” explains it, as a need for human mind to create newness. But this novelty cannot be created in our conscious thought because we are bound to acquired or learned, limits; differentiating rational and irrational. So in effort of being rational we stripped colorful
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I have chosen collection of Andre Breton’s poetry to suggest some examples.
All the first hand irrational and illogical ideas come from an unconscious mind. According to Jung “Dreams are the soil from which more symbols originally grow. The reason for this is that anything we heard or experience can become subliminal, that is to say pass into our subconscious. And even what we retain in our conscious mind and can reproduce at will has acquired an unconscious undertone that will color the idea each time it is recalled. Of course, such psychic undertones differ from one person to another” (G.Jung, 1964). Dreams generate scenes, actions and incoherent story lines. They create Imagery which is contradictory to each other, ideas which has undertones, which Freud called “equivalent meanings”……and Jorge Lakoff explains as conceptual metaphor
When I noticed the Genius of the place,
Ordinarily very

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