anagogic

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The multiple interpretation of works of fantasy has become our problem, and the diametrical opposition of the psychoanalytic and the anagogic interpretation has particularly struck us.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely

To the most general type belong then, without doubt, those symbols or frequently disguised images, concerning which we wondered before, that besides representing “titanic” tendencies, they are fitted to represent the anagogic.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely

The viewing of the exalted anagogic conception as a perspective vanishing point, makes allowance for the possible errors of superposition in the anagogic aspect of the elementary types.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely

As has been shown by two fairy tales and as I could have abundantly shown from countless others, the psychoanalytic and the anagogic interpretations are possible alongside of the scientific.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely

Quite as clear as the nature myth purport, is the fact that we have a representation of regeneration, which is quite as conceivable in psychoanalytic as in anagogic explanation.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely