The Complete Encyclopedia of Signs & Symbols: Identification and Analysis of the Visual Vocabulary That Formulates Our Thoughts and Dictates Our Reactions to the World Around Us - Softcover

Mark O'Connell; Raje Airey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178019062X ISBN 13: 9781780190624

Publisher: Southwater, 2012

Synopsis

This title deals with identification and analysis of the visual vocabulary that formulates our thoughts and dictates our reactions to the world around us. It is a fascinating guide to hundreds of symbols, signs and ideographs, illustrated with photographs, artworks, diagrams and drawings, and presented with authoritative text, commentary and definitions. Lavish illustration shows how signs and symbols have been interpreted and represented through thousands of years of art, myth and religion: from the Babylonians to the Egyptians; Leonardo da Vinci to Michaelangelo; from the Knights Templar to Freud and Jung, and from Aleister Crowley to the code-breakers of World War II. Accessible text explains, decodes and categorizes the signs and provides an indispensable reference. It contains a directory of over 1000 symbols, in addition to hundreds of images featuring these primal metaphors. Symbols can be as graphic as a cross, square or circle, or they can be conceptual representations of themes such as the soul, resurrection, love or desire. The meaning of these signs and symbols is complex and diverse, and depends on many variables. Over 1600 symbols and signs are covered in this comprehensive volume, analysing the definitions and interpretations that have been made across the boundaries of time, culture and tradition. Lavishly illustrated, this book contains a vast source of images and an erudite and informative text that will inform any scholar, dream-reader, magician, psychological historian, astrologer or pyschotherapist.

About this title

About the Author

Mark O'Connell is a process-orientated psychologist working in private practice. He has also taught and trained therapists for the last ten years, and has lectured on Sustainable Environments: the Ecology of People and the Land. Mark is experienced in many different forms of rituals and dream work, mythologies and symbols. Raje Airey is a writer with a broad knowledge of many esoteric traditions, including magic, tarot and dream therapy. She teaches tarot and runs dream workshops.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southwater
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178019062X
• ISBN 13: 9781780190624
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256