Psyche and Symbol

"The archetypes of human experience which derive from man's deepest unconscious mind and reveal themselves in the universal symbols of art and religion as well as in the individual symbolic creations of particular people are, for C. G. Jung, the key to the cure of souls, the cornerstone of his therapeutic work. The function and origin of symbols are explained in this volume. The reader will find here not only a general orientation to Jung's point of view in its most recent formulation, but extensive studies of the symbolic process and its integrating function in human psychology as it is reflected in the characteristic spiritual products of Europe and Asia'--