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This remarkable and wide-ranging book is an inventory of symbols and the symbolic imagination. The editors and their fifteen contributors are drawn from a variety of scholarly backgrounds - including anthropology, ethnology, psychotherapy and art history. This diversity of approach is responsible for the book's unique character, a reflection of the multiplicity of symbols and signs and the phenomenal range of possible interpretations they offer.
This book draws together folklore, literary and artistic sources, and focuses on the symbolic dimension of every colour, number, sound, gesture, expression or character trait that has benefitted from symbolic interpretation. The conscious and unconscious minds are explored, desire and dreams are treated alongside the known and the chronicled.
Extraordinary in its range and eclecticism, this dictionary was originally published in French as the Dictionnaire des Symboles, and it is regarded as the standard work on the subject.
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Dictionaries French, Signes et symboles, Vietnamese, Mythologie, Italian, Dictionaries, Dictionnaires, Folklore, Symbolism in folklore, Mythology, Symbolisme, Signs and symbols, Symbolism, Folklore, dictionaries, Mythology, dictionaries, French, Signs and symbols--dictionaries, Folklore--dictionaries, Mythology--dictionaries, Symbolism in folklore--dictionaries, Gr931 .c4413 1994, 302.2/22Showing 3 featured editions. View all 11 editions?
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The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols (Dictionary, Penguin)
March 1, 1997, Penguin (Non-Classics)
in English
0140512543 9780140512540
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Dictionnaire des symboles: mythes, rêves, coutumes, gestes, formes, figures, couleurs, nombres
1982, Laffont
in French
- Ed. rev. et augm.
222108716X 9782221087169
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