Analysis of The Divine Numinous Unconscious



We meet the Divine
encountering our unconscious.
We make our choices
facing the Adversary
while encountering the Good.

That is Genesis
of all human religions.
The unconscious realm
providing the impetus
for spiritual values.

A supreme wisdom
is found in the unconscious.
It governs us all
in our imaginary likeness
of the Imago Dei.


Scheme XAXXB AXXAX XAXAB
Poetic Form
Metre 11001 01001010 111010 100100 1010001 11100 1110010 0101 0100100 1100010 00110 110010 11011 010010010 1011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 335
Words 62
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 91
Words per stanza (avg) 18

About this poem

Acknowledging the numinous divine power of the unconscious, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), declared: “Like God, then, the unconscious has two aspects; one good, favorable, beneficent, the other evil, malevolent, disastrous. The unconscious is the immediate source of our religious experiences “ (Carl Jung, CE 18, par. 1538). This three-stanza tanka poem serves as an amplification of the Jungian declaration.

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Written on August 06, 2023

Submitted by karlcfolkes on August 06, 2023

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Karl Constantine FOLKES

Retired educator of Jamaican ancestry with a lifelong interest in composing poetry dealing particularly with the metaphysics of self-reflection; completed a dissertation in Children’s Literature in 1991 at New York University entitled: An Analysis of Wilhelm Grimm’s ‘Liebe Mili’ (translated into English as “Dear Mili”), Employing Von Franzian Methodological Processes of Analytical Psychology. The subject of the dissertation concerned the process of Individuation. more…

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