1. Sigmund Frued (From The Interpretation of Dreams)
... distinction to what he took to be the commonly-held historical tradition of symbolic understanding. Freud rejects a universal key for symbols in dream interpretation. His own method of interpretation, founded on contextualization of each dream element, cannot support an array of fixed symbolic meanings. However, by the end of the text, Freud finds symbolism to be important because it permits him to translate psychoanalysis into a general ... cultural science. Nevertheless, Freud ultimately creates a variety of common examples of fixed symbolic meaning in dreams, usually sexual in nature...
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