A scholarly look at Paradox

Anyone who's had to dodge a roadbloack on their literary path should be familiar with free association, along with other brainstorming techniques.
It is not so much a creative process as it is retracing neural roads, perhaps reinforcing the trenches, whether intentional or not.
Calling up a random word, then recording the next, you can begin to sketch an internal card-catalog for your library of memories. Which is one reason why this exercise is used in psychotherapy.
Writers often bring more of themselves (and people they know nearly as well, or better) into their works than they are aware of. The editing process tapers the razor edge of nuance to help the authors' world to blend more easily to the readers' comfort zones.
If there was less personal context serving as an underground tone, then making a book into a bridge between mind could prove an easier, or at least more adventuresome task.
Instead of chaining together words with a vague connection, making the effort to step outside the self and discover what may not seem to be a workable link in truth is a platinum (or titanium) bond when thrust into light. Actively searching out seemingly contradictory vocabulary could be the key and would be an admirable goal.
For example: Brilliant Blackness
there is far more 'light' we cannot see than what's in our visible spectrum. Superficially it seems to be an oxymoron. The alliteration and rhythm serve to hint at the intended interpretation lying below- a profound revelation once awareness increases to the point of providing logical context.
What was rejected before, citing lack of reason, is now discovered to be more true than any assumed fact in the state of ignorance.
Lack of self awareness does not preclude knowledge but my limit it.