Welcome to Living Symbols
Symbols are wellsprings of meaning but are we able to understand them?
Living Symbols aims to present ways to approach, understand, and relate to symbols as they can appear in dreams or other mediums.
Every episode will contribute to teach a symbolic literacy for curious amateurs to learn from.
Newest episode
The Adversarial Unconscious Part 1: The Great Father
To introduce this new multi-part series, I start with an amplification of the symbol of the lion and its dual nature. Next, an explanation is given on how the unconscious can turn adversarial. By focusing on the Great Father, this episode eventually concludes on the symbol of Abraxas.
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Longlegs: Crimson or Clover | Film Interpretation
In this episode, I ask the question: what is the fundamental nature of films? If they are more than entertainment, what are they? As an example, I discuss Oz Perkins' Longlegs and how it can be interpreted from a personalistic or collective dimension.
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What the Gods Need from Man | Dream Interpretation
In this first episode, I discuss why symbols are alive and interpret a remarkable dream.
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“For me a symbol is the sensuously perceptible expression of an inner experience. A religious experience strives for expression and can be expressed only “symbolically” because it transcends understanding. It must be expressed one way or another, for therein is revealed its immanent vital force. It wants to step over, as it were, into visible life, to take concrete shape.”
Carl Jung, Letters Volume 1, p. 59
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