I find Jung's idea interesting, he says, "We possess an innate symbol-forming propensity which exists as a healthy, creative, and integral part of our total psychic equipment. Although possessing a flexible capacity for local variations, this symbolizing ability proceeds on an archetypal basis which gives rise to characteristic symbolic manifestations (p.10)."
There are two quotes I found insightful the first is when Kekule says, "Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then we may perhaps find the truth (p.14)." The other is, "A thing is a thing. Its symbolic value is derived from the meanings and emotions it evokes in us. In other words, a thing becomes a symbol when something has been added to it. This does not alter its nature or its practical significance: it loads it with an increased weight of meaning (p.6-7)."
The quote I find most confusing is "the indicidual has a copy of that pattern in its CNS[central nervous sytem] and is structured to react in special kinds of ways when it perceives a matching pattern in the environment (p.24)."
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