One of the most popular children's tales, the story of Alice in Wonderland Lewis Caroll's story brings together the most diverse elements of human composition and, for this reason, is a great classic of children's literature.

Moreover, it is a popular tale that has won countless literary, animated and cinematographic versions, so how about getting to know more about it?

Why should you be interested in Alice in Wonderland?

To begin with, in addition to all the aspects we have already mentioned above, the symbolism of the narrative as well as its characters helps the imagination and stimulates curiosity about the ideal match. In other words, it is ste is not just a book for children!

Traveling to a fantastic world can be an experience that many adults can relate to. Moreover, they will be able to assign even new explanations and readings for what they are reading. Questions such as:

• has Alice fallen into a deep sleep?
• are you daydreaming?
• Or is she really living that experience?

It is up to the reader to give the narrative the treatment that suits him best. However, it is remarkable that psychoanalysis evaluates as a process the story of the girl who descends into the deep lands. The actions, the characters, the lines, everything makes clear the deep expression of psychoanalytic analysis that is latent in this story. Let's talk about that next!

Who is Alice

In Alice in Wonderland , According to our analysis, the story is nothing more than the symbolism of the fantastic world of the conscious/inconscious duality.

It is obvious that little Alice is the rational mind and restless for answers of all kinds. It is still that person who goes ahead being driven by instinct to discover what lies ahead. Thus, innate curiosity and the desire for full knowledge are represented here by the little girl.

Alice breaks the standards, she deigns to think, to reflect, to evaluate things, conditions, and people. Thus, she doesn't accept being handed ready-made truths, because she wants to seek them for herself. It is consciousness that leads her to draw her own conclusions, regardless of the narrative that is delivered.

More about Alice in Wonderland and the unconscious, conscious and subconscious

The sweet little girl dives into the underworld following her white rabbit. The world of the fantastic is revealed to her. Here we can interpret that such an alternative reality is the human subconscious itself, the place where everything is possible. So, logically, she finds her deepest fears and longings there.

We can take our subconscious as the underground world in Alice, did you know that? Hidden and guarded by the various senses, it gathers all our weaknesses and possibilities. However, it is possible to access this restricted and crazy place with a few tools. Dreams, for example, for Freud are involuntary manifestations of what dwells there. With therapy sessions, on the other handside, we can also see a lot.

Having said that, let's take a closer look at the history of this narrative.

More about the storyline

The Underground World

In the narrative of Alice in Wonderland, the girl descends into the underworld via a long drop. The descent into the subconscious is frightening, after all, it puts us before our greatest fears, but we are turning to our transformation, to self-knowledge.

Lower world, dense, unknown, uncomfortable to access, this is the definition for what goes on in our mind. What is there can frighten us, just as it can liberate us to wholeness at the conscious level. However, this access does not happen without that initial discomfort of encountering it.

"Know yourself and you will know the universe" (Socrates). We are the universe and the universe is us. We are connected to the cosmic energy, we are all part of the great universal community. Thus, we can all have access to this greatness of power.

The importance of self-knowledge

Given the depth of the human unconscious, there is great power in the decision to awaken to self-knowledge. It is about opening the doors of the subconscious mind where all potentialities are stored and, in a contradictory way, blocked. Just as Alice descended into the lower world to search for answers, you too will discover important aspects.

We can equate the saying "on earth as it is in heaven" with "as it is in the conscious so be it in the subconscious". It is he who shapes us, it is he who determines who we are. Thus, to have access to him is to find the key to existential plenitude, it is to know oneself completely since its formation.

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The archetypes

Throughout Alice's journey in wonderland, she encounters numerous fantastic beings. Some beings are anthropomorphic, others inanimate with personality, eccentric human figures such as the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts.

On the way to delving into her own emotions, searching for the foundation of her reality, the girl still makes friends. These can be either the representation of your own feelings or aspects of your psyche. Throughout the story, everything unfolds within the context in which the girl is .

Characters

If we see the characters as elements inherent to Alice herself, the villainous Queen of Hearts is impulsive, urgent, intense. She would be the very emotion dominating reason. Miss Alice is still unaware of her reality, taken by her harmonious concepts of feelings. With this, we notice the depth of seeing herself in front of who she really is.

The Mad Hatter, on the other hand, would be the still confused male aspect of Alice. At the same time that he identifies with it because of its trajectory, it serves him as an intuitive conduit. He has advice and hints to give you, representing certain authority in that place (the subconscious) as driving power (intuition).

In addition to these well-characterized and notable figures, there are series of other archetypes and figurative elements. Assessed in this way, the tale loses its childish connotation and becomes a tale for grown-ups. Wonderland is the land of possibilities, where everything can exist and be realized.

Expanding the interpretation

The naive tale of a little girl who falls into a hole and travels through a world of wonders is not just another tale. As such, it is about diving into deep hidden truths, an outer journey representing an inner one. And all this unravels in the face of Alice's boredom and unproductivity.

It is from there that the girl feels called precisely by the White Rabbit, quick and hurried, like Alice's imagination. Thus, with a fertile and restless imagination, that the girl launches herself into the fantastic adventure of rediscovering her own reality.

In the universe that awaits her, intellect and rationality do not dominate, time is independent, laws are alien. Thus, there could be nothing else but the fantastic that presents itself, the girl needs to face the supernatural. The real illusion is the one outside the hole. And so, Alice in wonderland will face her internal confrontations to discover what the real meaning is.

The girl will finally find her place through the surreal path she has traveled. Letting go of boredom, insecurity, and doubt, and becoming authentic, she will find her new self.

Final comments about Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland is a tale that transmits between the lines more than it reaches the children's audience. In fact, as in most children's stories where the fantastic dwells, the psychic world is symbolically represented. After all, it is the psychic world that determines our tangible and intangible reality. . In this context, our online Clinical Psychoanalysis course addresses the depth of a complete training in Psychoanalysis. Check it out!