Psychological Meaning of Symbol and Symbolic Forms
Psychological Meaning of Symbol and Symbolic Forms
Поляков А.М.
Abstract
The article presents a psychological analysis of symbol and symbolic forms (bodily practices, artistic images, expressive gestures,
myths (narratives)). The central characteristics of symbolic forms are the
focus on the expression of agent reality, intentionality, allegoricalness, antinomy, personification, universality, uniqueness of form, appeal to the
Other. The psychological meaning of a person's appeal to symbols lies in going beyond the limits of one's own position and discovering the position of the Other.