ABSTRACT
The nature of the unconscious to find ways of expressing itself in which it will not be recognized as expressing itself by the person whose unconscious it is. Psychoanalytic accounts of art and artists, and criticism of individual works attempt much more than to show the unconscious at play in individual works or in named artists, but that is one of the central things such accounts do provide. This is why, in Freudian psychoanalysis, dreams cannot be interpreted by means of a dream book, but require the cooperation of the dreamer in providing associations to the explicit content of the dream, so that the processes of condensation and displacement can be worked back to the original motivating wishes. In contrast, in Jungian psychoanalysis, a much greater place for fixed symbolism has been granted, the fixed symbols thought of as archetypes, images given a priori, independently of and prior to experience.
