Because psychoanalysis is a science of subjectivity, it is no
surprise that symbolism has been of central interest from its
inception and early development. There are few phenomena more
obviously subjective than symbols. They conjure a particular
fascination because of their enigmatic quality. For this reason,
they manage to communicate something in an obscure manner. Thus,
they partly hide. This duality and ambiguity approaches the
fleeting and evanescent quality of subjectivity itself at its most
subjective. Thinking in this descriptive way is not the most
immediately helpful approach to understanding symbols as phenomena
because it omits immediate consideration of how symbols are formed
and how they are used by the individual and the groups that seem to
form around them. Initially, the promise of symbols to the pioneers
of psychoanalysis was based on their offering an access to the
unconscious. Like dreams-and manifest in dreams-they promised to be
part of the royal road to the unconscious. This book is therefore
assembled in such a way that the reader can trace the development
of the understanding of symbols and their formation and use in its
historical context and to try to look at their clinical
significance. This is in the hope that the book will be of
relevance and use in the practical sense as well as the
theoretical.
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