A Dictionary of Symbols

<b>A classic encyclopedia of symbols by Catalan polymath Joan Cirlot that illuminates the symbolic underpinnings of myth modern psychology literature and art.<br><br></b>Juan Eduardo Cirlot&#146;s <i>A</i>&#160;<i>Dictionary of Symbols</i> is a feat of scholarship an act of the imagination and a tool for contemplation as well as a work of literature a reference book that is as indispensable as it is brilliant and learned. Cirlot was a composer a poet an art critic and a champion of modern art whose interest in surrealism helped to bring him to the study of symbolism. Carl Jung Mircea Eliade Ren&#233; Gu&#233;non Erich Fromm and Gaston Bachelard also helped to shape his thinking in a book that explores the space between the world at large and the world within where as Cirlot sees it nothing is meaningless everything is significant and everything is in some way related to something else. Running from &#147;abandonment&#148; to &#147;zone&#148; by way of &#147;flute&#148; and &#147;whip&#148; spanning the cultures of the world and including a wealth of visual images to further bring the reality of the symbol home <i>A Dictionary of Symbols</i> here published for the first time in English in its original significantly enlarged form is a luminous and illuminating investigation of the works of eternity in time.