Unconscious Expressive Motivations Of Poetic Deviations

This thesis aims to make a study on the unconscious mind of the poet that has great impact upon the expressive motivation of deviant poetic language. So far both at home and abroad such a field has rarely been studied profoundly and systematically,especially the way in which the unconscious influences the conscious. Based on the Freud's personal unconscious theory,Jung's collective unconscious theory and American formalist intentional theories,the thesis focuses on the study of the various aspects of unconscious motivation when the poet employs deviant expressions in his poetry. The identification,classification and analysis of the poet's unconscious expressive motivation will help us prove its existence and find out its potential influences upon deviant poetic expressions. The thesis is mainly divided into three parts:The first part concerns theoretical bases used to prove the existence of unconscious expressive motivation of the poet. Freud's unconscious is personal unconscious for he considers the poet's creations as connected with his personal childhood desires and traumas. Jung's unconscious is called "collective unconscious" as he believes that the poet may transcend his personal struggles and neurosis to speak the spirit and the heart of mankind. Intentional theories state that we should not limit ourselves to the author's claimed intention as well as critics' interpretations. Instead,we should expand our search for motivation,assuming that there is meaning not intended by the author or not detected by critics.The second is demonstration of the objective existence of poetic deviations. It aims mainly to analyze the kinds,essence and norms of the deviations that actually exist in poetry. We can see by analysis that although deviations of poetic language are strange and out of convention,which seems to prevent the reader from reaching correct comprehension of them,they are virtually the poet's new understanding and original naming of the reality. They lighten the world in a sudden. In a world where there islanguage limitation,it is indispensable that deviations reflecting new understanding of the reality come into existence.The third is the study of unconscious expressive motivations of deviations in creative practice. Taken as an example in analysis of the unconscious,Biguo's poem "Static Things" is typical in that it comprises both the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious. In this poem the poet's unconscious expressive intention can either be spotted by the critics and admitted by the poet or simply implied from the poem. And the unconscious is proved to be in existence and exert influences upon the conscious.We may see from the study that the unconscious expressive motivation is in various ways associated with and has impact upon the conscious. Therefore,in analyzing deviant poetic language,we should take into consideration not only the conscious but also the unconscious motivations of the poet. Strange as deviations are,they are not the perverseness of the poet but a flash of his wisdom. Freud's personal unconscious and Jung's collective unconscious are the powerful sources of unconscious expressions.