The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images

Replete with beautiful full-color images and insightful essays, ‘The Book of Symbols’ examines the psychic backgrounds of archetypal symbols, and how each evokes unique psychic processes and dynamics. Etymological roots, the play of opposites, paradox and shadow, and the ways in which different cultures have engaged a symbolic image are considered by a diverse body of authors from the fields of psychology, religion, art, literature, and comparative myth with the book acting as a pictorial and written archive of the symbols of the collective unconscious.