ABSTRACT
The nature and content of any particular image, especially if it appears in a dream or product of imagination, inevitably raises complex questions which would seem to be reflected in the protean use of the word symbol. The word, as Stein 2 points out, is derived from
…sym i.e. syn, which means ‘together, common, simultaneous, with, according to’, and bolon which means ‘that which has been thrown’, from ballo ‘I throw’. ‘Symbol’ thus means something perceptible as the result of an activity which throws together such things as have something in common, and in such a way that one thing somehow accords with another not presented to the senses and is synchronous with it.
