Gracie Kay Close- Conscious, Subconscious, and Unconscious

 In class we discussed a particular topic, the difference between unconscious and subconscious. In the discussion someone related the topic to an iceberg which resonated with me in understanding the discussion that followed.

The iceberg being a metaphor to what is known and what is unknown. Above the surface, where the iceberg is visible, is the consciousness. Thoughts that we can control. The thing with icebergs is actually what is underneath, the subconscious and unconscious, the not knowing. Underneath the surface there is no telling how one might interact with the dwellings of the mind. It can be considered dreaming or rather thoughts that never come to fruition. The subconscious lays beneath the water because nobody can ever see it, yet it holds great abundance to an individual. The best showing of how dangerous an iceberg can be is looking at what happened to the Titanic. In this analogy, just the little brushing of one's subconscious can have catastrophic events. Even scarier that that is what lays at the bottom of the ocean, which is something humans know so little about. The unconscious is something so investigated and yet holds so many mysteries, just as the bottom of the ocean does. 

I hate dreaming. I do not like the thoughts I have when I am not present to understand them. I usually do not remember my dreams but when I do, I rarely like them. In Campbell's understanding of the unconscious he writes, “Destruction of the world that we have built and in which we live, and of ourselves within it; but then a wonderful reconstruction, of the bolder, cleaner, more spacious, and fully human life-that is the lure, the promise and terror, of these disturbing night visitants from the mythological realm that we carry within.”. In his words, I have come to understand that the unconscious reworks our lives, and experiences into something different. We do not always understand why our minds work in such a way but one way of understanding such is through myths. A myth can work to understand such thoughts that are not always comprehensible. It may make the dreaming that much bearable, and the unknown, known.


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