•a word or an image is... «Человек и его символы»

•a word or an image is symbolic when- it implies something more than its obvious and immediate meaning

•Because there are innumerable things beyond the range of human understanding, we constantly use symbolic terms to represent concepts that we cannot define or fully comprehend.

•hysteria, certain types of pain, and abnormal behavior are in fact symptoms which are symbolically meaningful. They are one way in which the unconscious mind expresses itself, just as it may in dreams; and they are equally symbolic

•dreams have a definite, evidently purposeful structure, indicating an underlying idea or intention

•The mind can push the unpleasant thought or task out of awareness to make you avoid the discomfort it causes

•The more that consciousness is influenced by prejudices, errors, fantasies, and infantile wishes, the more the already existing gap will widen into a neurotic dissociation

•The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.

•The shadow becomes hostile only when he is ignored or misunderstood.