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Jung’s Definitions of Sign and Symbol

September 1st, 2010 No comments

In his Symbols of Transformation, Carl Jung said, “A symbol is an indefinite expression with many meanings, pointing to something not easily defined and therefore not fully known. But the sign always has a fixed meaning because it is a conventional abbreviation for, or a commonly accepted indication of something known.”

Carl G. Jung, Symbols of Transformation, trans. R.F.C. Hull (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1956), 124.