MAN AND HIS SYMBOLS

"Man's recurring interest in - almost obsession with - the symbols of the unconscious have a profoundly significant, almost a nourishing and sustaining inner abstraction - wether they occur in the myths and fairy tales or in visual arts, which satisfy and delight us by a constant appeal to the unconscious. "

Carl Jung, Man and His Symbols

Eugen Bleuler

Hysteria, types of pain and abnormal behaviour are in fact symbolically meaningful. They are one way in which the unconscious mind expresses itself, just as it may in dreams, and they are equally symbolic. “Complexes” - repressed emotional themes that can cause constant psychological disturbances or even, in many cases, the symptoms of neurosis. No individual symbolic imafe can be said to have a dogmatically fixed, generalized meaning.