In The Dream of a Common Language, Adrienne Rich is found borrowing heavily from archetypal psychology, especially from Erich Neumann`s premises. However, the poet has not been studied much from the perspective of what she borrows from analytical psychology for the collection and her other works in spite of her evident dependence on the school. Arguably she reveals her strong desire to reach the primordial-state freedom breaking through the distorted realities forced on her by oppressing forces. This world beyond consciousness has been one of the main fields to which analytical psychologists have devoted themselves. They have theorized that the budding consciousness of the earliest man was ruled by the unconscious the way in which the child relates to its mother. Neumann thinks that consciousness has taken on the characteristics of masculinity through long struggles for its independence against the unconscious, its matrix, while femininity parallels the unconscious in its traits. Present civilizations owe what they are to consciousness with its aggressive, and discriminating powers, but, because of the powers, they have, at the same time, developed in them destructive forces oppressing others, even other members of their own species and resultantly threatening the very existence of human civilization itself. Rich agrees to this point that the energy of patriarchy is almost depleted and what power remains in the system is harnessed only for destruction. The revival of femininity as the dominating principle of the world is required not only for the liberation of the oppressed half-world, but also for the salvation of both sexes. Unlike selfish, dominance-orienting and oppressing traits of masculinity, femininity is characterized by receptivity, equality, nourishing and self-sacrifice which are also characteristic of the unconscious. Under the sense of missions of liberating women and salvaging humanity arises the next critical problem of how to clear women of masculinity-inculcated consciousness, and how to draw out femininity buried in the depths of her psyche. The way her consciousness operates has been formed through interactions with male figures in the male-dominated world. Now Rich chooses to interact exclusively with women as she shows in the lesbian relationships depicted in "Twenty-one Love Poems." By doing so, she seems to believe, she can shake off the patriarchal way of thinking subservient to the male-dominate societal conventions, and can secure her own way of thinking through a new language with which she can perceive and define the world without patriarchal contaminations and build a new world.