The symbolic meaning of mermaid?

There is a traditional saying that dreaming of fish means becoming rich. Homophony, fish and fish, fish and fish. The fish in the picture represents "surplus" in 2008. From this point of view, fish is an accidental symbol, because its pronunciation is accidentally the same as "fish" and "fish" in China language. However, this is not the whole reason. In ancient times, in different nationalities, fish could represent wealth in people's minds. Probably because for primitive people, catching fish is wealth.

Fish can also be representative. Fish swimming in water may be similar to sexual behavior in action, and fish and sexual organs are also similar. I don't know if the reader has ever been to Banpo site in Xi 'an, where there is a pottery bottle painted with fish and birds, which depicts a fish opening its mouth and swallowing a bird's head. Why are primitive people so willing to draw this kind of painting? If you look at the fish and bird pattern carefully, it will be clear. The bird's head is shaped like a penis. Moreover, the shape of the fish mouth is very similar to the cross section of the vagina, which surprised the anatomical knowledge of primitive people So this means sexual intercourse.

Jung mentioned that fish, especially those living in the depths of the ocean, represent the lower psychological center of human beings, the sympathetic nervous system of human beings, or "animals in the lower bound". This statement is also very reasonable. In my experience, fish often symbolizes the subconscious or human intuition. In some artists' dreams, it represents mysterious and elusive inspiration.

In character, fish mostly symbolizes gentleness, thoughtfulness and dedication. Therefore, they are also more vulnerable. Except for special fish, such as sharks, fish are generally not very aggressive.

It is not difficult to understand that sharks sometimes symbolize danger. When people mention a shark, the first thing that comes to mind is not its meat, but its teeth.

Analysis of The Mermaid:

Anima (female image in every man's heart, female component in men's heart) prototype is combined with fish prototype to form a new prototype-mermaid.

We can see that although the mermaid looks a bit like a combination of beauty and fish, in terms of personality, the mermaid's personality is complete, which is the integration of beauty and fish.

Most of this new image is a gentle and infatuated woman, and this kind of gentle and infatuated quality comes more from fish. Fish is an animal in water, and water can be a symbol of emotion, so fish also attaches importance to emotion. There is a saying in China: "Women are made of water", and the women mentioned here are probably "mermaid" family women. They are as gentle as water.

Fish also symbolizes nutrition and wealth. Therefore, a mermaid, like a fish, makes selfless dedication to her lover, which is the nourishment of her lover. She is different from her mother's archetypal nourishment. Mother is the nourishment and protector, and the object that men depend on. Mermaids, on the other hand, are obedient. She nurtures and obeys men.

Fish are generally unarmed, so mermaids are generally not aggressive, so if the people she loves don't cherish her, she is vulnerable.

The typical mermaid prototype figure is of course the mermaid in The Daughter of the Sea by Danish fairy tale writer Andersen, who has all the characteristics of the mermaid prototype image. In the story, the prince was caught in a big storm and his boat capsized. The mermaid saved him to the shore and she fell in love with the prince silently. She exchanged her tongue for a pair of legs and feet from the witch, and then became a human to find the prince. Unfortunately, she can't tell the prince her love. After that, she sacrificed her life for the happiness of the prince.

We can see that this image is gentle. For the prince, she is nourishing and helping, selfless dedication.

This story of Andersen is actually a symbol, and the mermaid in the story actually symbolizes the image of Anima and fish. She represents another part of the prince's soul-the female image in the subconscious. The mermaid hopes to let the prince know about her love process, which symbolizes Anima's efforts to enter consciousness in the subconscious, and the subconscious personality hopes that the conscious personality knows about her efforts. If successful, this is the symbol of sacred marriage, and the combination of personality is more complete. But if you don't succeed, the image generated in the subconscious will be shattered, just like an inspiration will be forgotten soon if it is not noticed.

Holy marriage is the combination of spiritual alchemy. If a mermaid and a prince are combined, the new image will be another prototype.

The symbolic images of the mermaid include Shuang'er in Jin Yong's novel The Duke Of Mount Deer and Xiao Zhao in The Dragon Slayer with Eternal Hand. These characters are gentle and affectionate. Only in Xiao Zhao, the proportion of "fish" is slightly less than that in Shuang'er, and the composition in Anima is slightly more. One of the characteristics of Anima is "mystery", while Xiao Zhao is quite mysterious.

I forgot to mention that the image of "fish" in the dream is related to sex, and the sex between fish and water is a symbol of China's ancient sex. Therefore, in the "dedication" of Xiao Zhao and Shuang'er, we can clearly feel women's sexual consciousness, and dedicating ourselves is an important feature of women's sexiness. mermaid