Translation of symbolic thought in dreams or myths into
conventional discursive thought is useful and interesting. But it is also
worth noting that we are left with the feeling of something provisional,
that no gloss is exhaustive or completely satisfying. For perhaps similarly
to the way in which every subtle aspect of biology seems to fall into place,
symbols lend themselves to elegant design. Indeed there is something
uncanny in the mechanics of symbols; they intertwine with a greater force
and ease than seems possible in the same domain as physical laws; as though
perhaps our world were the intersection of that which can be expessed simultaneously
using both dream logic and waking logic; as though corresponding to our
ability to explain myth in the language of science, every expression of
the world of causality and science, every particular fact, also resonates
as a symbol in the story of a psychic cosmos, conventionally referred to
as God.
