psychoanalysis of water

"To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water... "

"The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.  

"The material imagination of water is always in danger; it risks eclipse when the material imaginations of earth or fire intervene. Therefore, a psychoanalysis of water images is rarely necessary, since these images are seemingly self-dispersing. They do not bewitch just any dreamer ... certain forms of water have more attraction, more compelling force, more consistency. That is because more material and profound reveries intervene, because our inner being is more deeply engaged, and because or imagination dreams more specifically of creative acts. Then the poetic power, which was imperceptible in a poetry of reflections, appears suddenly. Water becomes heavier, darker, deeper; it becomes matter. "

Bachelard, G. 1942 Water and Dreams: 
An Essay on the Imagination

"[Man] is not surprised to find that things near are not less beautiful and wondrous than things remote. The near explains the far. The drop is but a small ocean. A man is related to all nature."  
Hart, T, 2007. Reciprocal Revelation: Toward a Pedagogy of Interiority in Journal of Cognitive Affective Learning, 3(2) (Spring 2007), 1-10 Oxford College of Emory University