Jar -> Penis -> Vagina -> Binary Opposites -> Never-ending Confusion ----> .....

When I had to start writing the essay on the Psychoanalytic view, I was a little dumbfounded; this was definitely the most confusing type of interpretation to me thus far through the course. What helped me to finally get a grip on it (atleast I think. I suppose I will find out once I get my essay back), was the Chains of Word Associations. A person can really take the associations in any direction they please, and it helped me to see countering points in almost every word. I thought it was actually kind of interesting and amusing some of the chains I came up with, so I figured I might share some from Anecdote of the Jar:

Round:
-complete -> neat, organized -> clean -> guiltless -> no ugly thoughts -> conscience -> conscious..
-fat -> eat a lot -> give in to gluttony -> greed -> primitive trait -> Freud's Id -> unconscious.
-circle -> unbroken -> ring -> marriage -> big decision/serious -> responsibility, commitment.

Bare:
-plain -> without adornment/flash -> boring, unexciting -> conscience -> conscious.
-naked -> in full beauty -> natural -> wild (Id) --> unacceptable in public -> (against) social rule -> social rule is man-made -> unnatural.
-unconcealed -> vulnerable -> scary -> fight/flight -> natural instinct -> Id/unconscious.

Sprawled:
-stretched out -> open; laying -> sleeping -> guard is down -> vulnerable -> predation possible -> anxiety; fear
-spread out -> sexually aroused -> in want of sex -> reproduction -> natural/essential -> instinct.
-sounds like and reminded me of crawled -> enticing, alluring -> 'bad always looks more fun' -> Id/unconscious.
-ungraceful -> untidy -> unclean -> disordered, messy -> slovenly.

the wilderness rose up to it:
-the flower -> part of the wilderness -> beautiful -> wonderful scent -> alluring --> has thorns -> protection -> thorns cause pain -> dangerous (**Looks nice but is essentially bad/harmful?)
-becomes tall -> high -> standing -> proud --> standing -> governing, watching -> keeping in line/order, under control.
-becomes tall -> big -> protecting -> safe -> happy, unworried/ unparanoid

I'll stop there, I'm sure you get the idea. I just like how I can see sex, beauty, fear, danger, the mind, etc., in some of the plainest words in the poem; and some one else could come up with many more, radically different associations. The arbitrariness of language never fails to stun me.