...'messages' even if the consciousness remains unaware of this fact. The historian [Historian] is now free to conduct his hermeneutical work upon a symbol without...moment understood all the meanings and implications ofthat symbol.35 33. Fromm, p. 112. 34. Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, p. 20. For Eliade's attempt to...

...their "messages" even if the conscious mind remains unaware of this fact. The historian is now free to conduct his hermeneutical work upon a symbol without...understood all the meanings and implications of that symbol. Freud's reductionism constitutes another stimulating challenge to the contemporary student...

...being so, the hermeneutic of a symbolic form such as the stupa is freed from the necessity of asking "how many individuals in a certain society and at...understood all the meanings and implications of that symbol '' 47 If the stupa can be shown to have clearly expressed a meaning at a certain moment of its...