ABSTRACT
After some collective examples of the impact of symbols, it is proposed that music is a waking dream filled with symbolic content and that, like our dream ego, our highly attuned music ego can hear, feel and sense what our one-sided complexed ego stance cannot. The life span and liminality of a symbol is alluded to in relation to how music is explored within university music training programmes. Auditory symbols that are neither verbal nor visual are discussed in relation to the Cartesian split between matter and that which is beyond tangible physicality and the notion of an auditory digestive system is put forward. How musical processes can lead to a confrontation with depth-oriented content through Archetypal Music Psychotherapy is explored.
