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... images , dreams , words , symbolic ab- stractions - that plenitude of life which even the humblest being in some degree exhibits - cannot be resolved in any mathematical equation or con- verted into a geometric metaphor without ...
... images , dreams , words , symbolic ab- stractions - that plenitude of life which even the humblest being in some degree exhibits - cannot be resolved in any mathematical equation or con- verted into a geometric metaphor without ...
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... image , by reason of its very concreteness , has remained dominant - even though the actual experience of our con- temporaries includes X - rays and the electronic transmission systems of images and sounds . To illustrate the hold that ...
... image , by reason of its very concreteness , has remained dominant - even though the actual experience of our con- temporaries includes X - rays and the electronic transmission systems of images and sounds . To illustrate the hold that ...
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... images with known impulses and pathological reactions . Though the kind of knowledge so gained often proved illuminating , it was uncertain , and difficult to validate , for different dream interpreters would often attach different ...
... images with known impulses and pathological reactions . Though the kind of knowledge so gained often proved illuminating , it was uncertain , and difficult to validate , for different dream interpreters would often attach different ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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