Secret Language of Symbols: A Visual Key to Symbols and Their Meaning - Hardcover

Fontana, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811804895 ISBN 13: 9780811804899

Publisher: Chronicle Books, 1994

Synopsis

Explores the culture, history, and psychology that lies behind a wide range of symbols

About this title

About the Author

David Fontana, Ph.D. , is a professor of psychology and the author of the best-selling Learn to Meditate (0-8118-2250-8), Teach Yourself to Dream (0-8118-1628-1), and numerous other books. He lives in Wales.

From Library Journal

Since Jung's Man and His Symbols , several visual glossaries, from Eva Hangen's Symbols , Our Universal Language , to full-text studies by Joseph Campbell, have appeared. Drawing not only from nature, or objects, but sounds, odors, metaphors, gestures, myths, hybrid creatures, mazes, mystical gardens, mandalas, and celestial bodies Fontana (Univ. of Wales) offers the most comprehensive array yet. In this work, enhanced by over 300 color illustrations, he aims to stimulate interest and access to the symbolic world. The work is more than a simple reference tool; opening chapters reflect a Jungian slant that archetypes from the collective unconscious project the power of symbols found in art, meditation, and dreaming. Final chapters describe occult symbolic systems such as Kabbalah, alchemy, tarot, tantra, astrology, and I Ching. Highly recommended.
- Dara Eklund, Los Angeles P.L.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0811804895
• ISBN 13: 9780811804899
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 192