The Confluence of Mystic and Animalistic Constituents Problematizes Human Consciousness: A Study of Ted Hughes’s Selected Poems

Abstract

The study expounded upon “The Confluence of Mystic and Animalistic Constituents Problematizes Human Consciousness: A Study of Ted Hughes’s Selected Poems”. The impacts of the chaotic forces of the universe, lack of equilibrium between man’s material and mystic self, post-traumatic stress of World war I & II, dispersion of emotions, the dilemma of fear, doubt and uncertainty on the construct of individual’s socio psychic existence are the pivotal focus of this research. It explored those hurdles that obstacle the elevation of man’s actual self regardless of his multiple performative identities. This paper probed into the perpetuity of the contention between positive and negative energies of the World, necessary for the pacification of the wild instinctive self of man, and the quest for a singular identity were the core features that fabricate human consciousness. It was qualitative research undertaking psychoanalytical reading of Hughes’s poetry. Freudian theory of psychoanalysis, Jungian theory of individuation, Lacan’s concept of Lack, Gaze, Desire, and Mirror stage were the key concepts to explore the modern man’s socio psychic maladaptive attitude. The study may have further implications on the researchers studying advanced psychological and sociological theories related to the ruptured consciousness of the human mind in this dynamic World.