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The word symbolism is here used in its widest sense, and no distinction
is drawn between the numerous conscious processes such as metaphor, allegory, etc., and true symbolism of unconscious ideas. We thus read of various objects 'symbolizing' abstract ideas, such as joy, friendship, misfortune, and so on.
Nevertheless, the book is an extremely valuable one when regarded purely as a collection of material, for it is put together by a scholar of the subject. Although primarily a collection of 'symbolic' examples occurring in the Bible, there are numerous useful additions made from other Semitic sources, as well as Babylonian and Egyptian.
It is thus one of the increasing number of books for which psycho-analysis are deeply grateful, for a mass of otherwise inaccessible material is here co-ordinated in a way that will be of considerable assistance to those making studies of anthropological symbolism.