ABSTRACT
At the heart of things is chaos and it lives in people’s unconscious, where they learn to raid the inarticulate. While the unconscious mind plays, the conscious mind finds words and images to express the messages from the deep. But the nature of the unconscious changes; it is continuously altered by experience. The chapter focuses on large and small moments. It shows imagistically a chance encounter with mannequins in Barcelona, and read about one woman's fleeting relationship with a bird. The chapter also focuses on childhood imagination, nostalgia, and unconscious doodling. It is through artistic expression over eons that psychoanalysts are able to appreciate their common humanity–what makes people laugh, what makes them cry, what fills them with wonderment. Through their creative works, they allow people to touch them, to feel their presence, to hold their dreams. It is through their art that people inherit their civilization.
