ABSTRACT
With the recent advances in psychology and neuroscience, the current view of the function of the mind has come closer to the pioneering theories of Freud and Jung, and a suite of evidence has proved the existence of an unconscious with its own logic. For both Carl Gustav Jung and Sigmund Freud, it was clear that the unconscious communicates through symbols, and dreams were typically reviewed for symbols that were then interpreted to understand the contents of the unconscious. One can view metaphors and other types of symbolic language as the unconscious representations in a given text. The manifestations of the unconscious structures form generalisations and abstractions, to which stereotypes and metaphors belong. Ignacio Matte Blanco expanded on Freud's postulates of the unconscious and provided a mathematical expression of the distinction between conscious and unconscious thinking, in essence a continuum move from infinity towards unity.
