Examples of poems are quoted from the repertoire of a student of nineteen whose best work was created in a dissociated state. His conscious efforts lacked the true poetic quality and could have been as well expressed in prose. From this case the author concludes that a 'complex' is an important factor, both in the production and appreciation of a poem. Also that the poet does not always understand the meaning of his own poetry. The poem written in a hypnoidal condition, and later subjected by the poet to conscious criticism, frequently suffers from his censorship. The following example from the above-mentioned case is quoted as an illustration:

There a sighing lane is turning As a snake with drowsy coil It probes into the vaguies shadows As though seeking rainbow spoil.

The beautiful word ('vaguies') coined by the poet, suggests much more than the substituted word 'shadows'.