Humans, it's said, are symbolizing animals. At every stage of
civilization, people have relied on symbolic expression, and advances in
science and technology have only increased our dependence on symbols.
The language of symbols is considered a science, and this informative
volume offers an indispensable tool in the study of symbology. It can be
used as a reference or simply browsed for pleasure. Many of its entries
— those on architecture, mandala, numbers, serpent, water, and zodiac,
for example — can be read as independent essays. The vitality of
symbology has never been greater: An essential part of the ancient arts
of the Orient and of the Western medieval traditions, symbolism
underwent a 20th-century revival with the study of the unconscious, both
directly in the field of dreams, visions, and psychoanalysis, and
indirectly in art and poetry. A wide audience awaits the assistance of
this dictionary in elucidating the symbolic worlds encountered in both
the arts and the history of ideas.
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