Artistic literature, hidden between covers, written by people for people, may be always interpreted from various perspectives, including the psychoanalytic approach. Quite frequently, words wander from one domain to another, sometimes with the same meaning, other times modifying their significance. As a general rule, analysis of the actions and language of a character involves comparison, in which stress is laid on each concrete case in part. In many situations, simultaneous literary grounds may bring together writers belonging to different cultural spaces, in whose works similar, but never identical, situations may be frequently met. In this respect, the artistic creations of Vasile Voiculescu and Ernest Hemingway – both interweaving reality and imagination in the fishing net of writing – will be analysed from a comparative perspective. Fully aware of the responsibility taken upon herself by re-interpreting quite famous creations – Amin the Fisherman by V. Voiculescu and The Old Man and the Sea by E. Hemingway – the author attempts, nevertheless, at finding out her own interpretative fish. In an attempt of surpassing the obsessive spheres, the method of interpretation will show the manner in which the unconscious works out in favour of its own discovery, for unveiling the identity and connections between the archetype and the ritual – as an expression of re-discovery.