The Symbolic Quest: Basic Concepts of Analytical Psychology - Expanded Edition

(Paperback, Expanded Edition)

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This book explores the use and development of man's symbolizing capacities-those qualities that make him distinctly human. Dr. Whitmont describes the symbolic approach to a dream, which takes into account a symptom's meaning in reference to an unfolding wholeness of personality. He then presents the view that the instinctual urge for meaning is ser

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"[Whitmont] has succeeded in what can only be called an act of creative translation... The general reader will get what has not been available before, a clear and lucid statement of the Jungian position, that life has a pattern of wholeness which can only be comprehended symbolically at this moment in time."--The Los Angeles Times