书名：Dictionary of Symbols 

作者：Jean Chevalier；Alain Gheerbrant 

出版社名称：Penguin 

出版时间：1997 

语种：英文 

ISBN：9780140512540 

商品尺寸：12.7 x 4.8 x 19.8 cm 

包装：平装 

页数：1184

同样一件事物，在不同的文化里，往往有着不同的象征意义。为了帮助人们更加全面地了解西方文化，国际著名作家Jean Chevalier、Alain Gheerbrant合著了这本词典Dictionary of Symbols。词典按照字母表A-Z的顺序编排，涉及了文学、宗教、艺术等多个领域的内容，向读者介绍并详细解释了西方文化中各种事物的象征意义，同时让读者对西方文化有更加广泛、深入的了解。

This is a remarkable dictionary, exploring the vast and various symbols which abound in literature, religion, national identity and are found at the very heart of our dreams and sub-conscious. Compiled by an international team of experts, each entry is given its complete range of interpretations - sexual and spiritual, official and subversive, cultural and religious - to bring meaning and insight to the symbol. Jean Chevalier(1906–1993) was a French writer, philosopher, and theologian. Until 1964, he was director of the Bureau of Relations for Member States at UNESCO, a post he left to research and write Dictionnaire des symboles with famed Amazon explorer Alain Gheerbrant. A compendium of more than 1,600 articles about the symbolism of myths, dreams, colors, habits, etc., found in folklore and mythology, this encyclopedia of cultural anthropology is published as The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols in English. Alain Gheerbrant(1920–2013) was a French writer, editor, and explorer. He was the founding editor of K Éditeur, which published works by Antonin Artaud, Georges Bataille, and Aimé Césaire. In 1948, he left France with his team to explore a dense part of the Amazon, including Sierra Parima, and wrote of his travels in L’Expédition Orénoque-Amazone (1952). In 1982, in colloboration with author Jean Chevalier, he published Dictionnaire des symboles (The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols in English), an encyclopedia of cultural anthropology about the symbolism of myths and folklore. He released his memoir called La Transversale in 1995. List of contributors Alphabetical entries A-Z Bibliography Appendix Abyss In both Greek and Latin ‘abyss’ indicates something which is bottomless, a world of endless depth or height. In apocryphal writings it is a blanket term for all formless states of being. It can be equally well applied to the shapeless Chaos preceding time as to the shadowy Hell of the end of the world. On the psychological plane it corresponds as much to the indeterminacy of childhood as to the undifferentiated state of death and the decomposition of the personality. But it may also indicate the ultimate act of unification, the so-called mystic marriage. The vertical lines are no longer those of descent, but of ascent. The abyss is as much topless as bottomless, one of joy and light as well as of misery and darkness. Historically, however, the sense of the abyss of Hell precedes that of Heaven. In Sumerian folklore, the home of Enki, the Ruler of the World, floats upon the abyss, while, according to the Akkadians. It was Tiamat, the Mother of AU Things, who brought forth monsters at its mouth (SOUN p. 136). In the Bible, too, the abyss is sometimes imagined as a MONSTER, LEVIATHAN However, in Psalm 104 the abyss is compared with a garment covering the Earth, while Jehovah ‘coverest (him)self with light as with a garment’. The abyss is to be found in all cosmogonies as the beginning and the end of an evolving universe. Like the monsters of myth, it swallows living beings only to regurgitate them transformed. The depths of the abyss forms an analogy with the kingdom of the dead and hence the worship of the Great Goddess, Mother Earth. Undoubtedly when C.G. Jung connects the symbolism of the abyss to his maternal archetype, the MOTHER who inspires both love and fear, it was upon the basis of this age-old cultural substratum. In dreams pleasant or nightmarish, the abyss conjures up the vast and powerful subconscious and is seen as an invitation to plumb the depths of the soul, to break its bonds and exorcise its ghosts.