Saturday, September 22, 2012

Ariadne's Clue

Interesting/Insightful Quotes 

  • "Human dreams are spontaneous, involuntary events which generate symbols every night of our lives. In dreams, no less than in consciousness, we use symbols to try out ideas in the light of past experience and to formulate new concepts burst through the threshold of consciousness (Stevens, 16-17)." 
  • "The typical dreams reported involved predatory animals, flying, falling, being pursued by hostile strangers, landscapes, sex, getting married and having children, taking examinations or undergoing some similar ordeal, traveling (whether on foot, horseback, car, airplane, or ship), swimming or being in the water, watching fires, and being confined in an underground place (Stevens, 21)." 
  • "Symbols and words have one thing in common: that they are all sensory expressions of thought. Thoughts which are invisible and inaudible in themselves are made visible and audible in images and sounds (Stevens, 28)."
Confusing Quote
  • "Symbol formation is evidently related to reification- a parallel propensity by which an idea or an abstraction is transformed into something tangible, such as a deity (for example, Eros, God of Love; Mars, God of War; and Gaia, Mother Earth) (Stevens, 36)." 

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