| Description |
512 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
|
Place of publication from the publisher's website. |
| Summary |
"The visual vocabulary and secret language that shape our thoughts and dreams and dictate our reactions to the world, with more than 2200 vivid images. Many symbols carry an elemental power that transcends boundaries and holds significance for other cultures. This comprehensive and beautiful book discusses and illustrates thousands of these symbols and assesses their position in language, art, literature, mythology, magic, religion and psychology. In the second half of the book, how we dream and how we interpret dreams is analysed as a way of accessing our subconscious fears, desires and preoccupations. The erudite text provides a wealth of cultural background to primal metaphors that are part of mankind's universal language. The book is both a journey of discovery into the importance of symbolism and dreaming and a vast visual resource of signs and symbols."--Amazon. |
| Subject |
Signs and symbols -- Encyclopedias.
|
|
Dream interpretation -- Encyclopedias.
|
|
Dream interpretation. (OCoLC)fst00897886
|
|
Signs and symbols. (OCoLC)fst01118355
|
| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias. (OCoLC)fst01423798
|
| Added Author |
Airey, Raje, author.
|
|
Craze, Richard, 1950-2006, author.
|
| Added Title |
Illustrated encyclopedia of signs, symbols and dream interpretation |
|
Encyclopedia of signs, symbols & dream interpretation |
|
Signs, symbols & dream interpretation |
| ISBN |
9780754835301 hardcover |
|
0754835308 hardcover |
|
