A Dictionary of Symbols - 1962

"A classic encyclopedia of symbols by Catalan polymath Juan Edwardo Cirlot that illuminates the symbolic underpinnings of myth, modern psychology, literature, and art. Cirlot’s A Dictionary of Symbols is a feat of scholarship, an act of the imagination, and a tool for contemplation, as well as a work of literature, a reference book that is as indispensable as it is brilliant and learned. Cirlot was a composer, a poet, an art critic, and a champion of modern art whose interest in surrealism helped to bring him to the study of symbolism. Carl Jung, Mircea Eliade, René Guénon, Erich Fromm, and Gaston Bachelard also helped to shape his thinking in a book that explores the space between the world at large and the world within, where, as Cirlot sees it, nothing is meaningless, everything is significant, and everything is in some way related to something else." - A Dictionary of Symbols - J.E. Cirlot. Translated from the Spanish by Jack Sage. Foreword by Herbert Read Published 1962, Philosophical Library, Inc. New York Hardcover. Approx. 6x9in. 400pp. Dustjacket is pretty beat up with wear and tear. Book itself is in good vintage condition.