Summary Of Symbolic Connections By Stout

In addition, even when people want to push their sense of self back to the reality, the capacity of forming symbolic connections can still be a barrier to disrupt the process. To be more detailed, author Stout described the situation when people fail into dissociation due to symbolic connection as “ One temporarily has the sense of looking at the world through the wrong end of a telescope:everything looks small and far away, though one knows intellectually that these same things are just as close and life-sized as ever.” (Stout 433) The shrinked views might sound not that bad, and when people accidentally look at the wrong side of telescope, it can be even amused. But image you have to see everything through the lense. Whether go to work or
Experienced this kind of situation, common people would not want to suffer from it again, but symbolic connection thinking can still randomly bring people back to the torment, even when people want to struggle and escape, they can easily be discouraged by the endless illusion. Stout describes the situation when one of her patience tried to get out of dissociation, “ I keep drifting backwards, and the beach get smaller, and the ocean gets bigger and bigger, and when I’ve drifted out far enough, the beach disappears, and all I can see all around me is the sea.”, ( Stout 434) Floating on the sea, people can easily feel a sense of lost, and falling into the stage of dissociation is just like drifting at the ocean. Even though people can clearly realize where they should go, the power of dissociation are just like the sea wave, carrying people to a far place they do not even know.The clear description of when people take their consciousness out of the reality shows the idea of how despairing a person would be if once they fall out of the