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Contextual symbols: A symbolalso rises, shifting meaningJames HallPublished online: 17 Jan 2008.

To cite this article: James Hall (2004) Contextual symbols: A symbol also rises,shifting meaning, Psychological Perspectives: A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought,47:1, 47-47

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Contextual Symbols: A Symbol Also Rises, Shifting Meaning

James Hall

At the State Fair between the Funnel cake and the Belgian waffle stands, I bought my grandson Kenneth, age 3, A festive red helium balloon.

Sam, his dad, tied the string in a loose loop around his left wrist. This was OK past the sausageburgers and the saltwater taffy-but halfway through the Midway it floated free.

Soon it rose beyond his daddy’s tiptoe reach and soared into the black velvet night sky.

At certain meters from the earth it lost the sheen of gaiety and was a fragile human symbol in the mighty many-muscled wind.

James A . Hall is a Zurich-trained (retired) analystlpsychiatrist who was disabled in 1991 by a brainstem stroke that left him quadriplegic and mute but with normal sensorium and intellect. His publications include Jungian Dream Interpretation: A Handbook of Theory and Practice, and Hypnosis: A Jungian Perspective.

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