With this edition, which enhances and extends in some places the original French edition, we offer Spanish-speaking reader the dictionary comprehensive and documented that exists today on the symbols. Contains over 1200 voices and 300 drawings that lend themselves to interpretation. Among these are offered here the most satisfied, while fundamental suggestive and evocative words that best enable the reader to quicken the imagination, encourage reflection and self foresee new meanings. The work of personal invention and the possibility of original perception are also facilitated by a set of numerous correspondences between the reviews of the dictionary, and specialized reference books offered in the abundant literature. Flipping through the pages the reader is familiar gradually with symbolic thought, slowly unravels the logic of symbols, which eludes systematization and dialectical contradictions in his support, but that is to say, however, G. de Champeaux, S. Sterckx the plot of subjective events as well as the universe. When you then open the reader art books when visiting museums and monuments, masterpieces will seem located in a set of dimensions hitherto unnoticed, and will be enriched with a new sense. Notice that the creations of consciousness, the unconscious and transconsciente in iconographic or literary diversity, are based on the same models and develop according to the same structures. "The more archaic and deep is the symbol type CG Jung becomes more collective and universal. " Levi-Strauss meanwhile cautioned that "there where the human mind seems more free to leave her creative spontaneity, where selected images, associations, objects or chains, there is no clutter or some fantasy." "The symbolic order Lacan designates as phenomena that psychoanalysis is, as they are constituted as a language that structures interpersonal reality." Also M. Eliade, G. Durand and J. Piaget, among others, have emphasized the consistency and logic of symbols, defiant behind his enigmatic presence.
In this maze of myths and symbols that is life in all its aspects, this dictionary can serve the reader with a vital clue to guide him in the dark corners of the enclosure. It can help you to dream about the symbols and G. Bachelard invited "to dream about dreams, and discover in these constellations imaginary desire, fear, ambition ... that give life its secret meaning. "The open and unsystematic book is perhaps the most appropriate.
Many experts have contributed to this work refer to allowing all traditions and cultural areas of the world: the black African pre-Columbian America, Eurasia, the Far East, South Asia, the Near and Middle East, as well as the tradition Islamic, Celtic and Germanic Europe, Greco-Roman tradition, ancient Egypt, as well as Jewish and Christian symbols. Examples are given of interpretation to the various schools of modern psychological analysis, and also describes the astrological symbols, which are found in all cultures and all times, considering both traditional interpretations and guidelines of the new school astropsicológica.
This dictionary will be highly useful in many disciplines: the history of civilizations and religions, philology and linguistics, cultural anthropology, history and art criticism, psychology, sociology, philosophy, science and information communication, media arts, visual arts, architecture, music, literature, performing arts and entertainment, among others. It will therefore be a reference work and an introduction to the symbolism.