"figs of the opposite sex are extremely varied guises.
A man can dream cat, cats, they are privileged figures of sensitivity and sensuality of women, naturally wild animals too, panthers, jaguars, tigers, hinds. The woman may take any form from the witch, a prostitute, to the fairy, the inspiration, the angel. These figures are not exclusive of each other. All this comes in dreams to provide Human vision is extremely broad, full of contrasts, the female principle.
When the man for woman, it is first the lion proud and generous, is not it?
It is also the horse, the dog. The dog often appears in the dreams of women, like instinct, sexual instinct crude a dog sometimes aggressive, sometimes faithful who licks their hands: then the guardian and protector.
And then there's the whole variety of non-domestic animals, from elephants, tigers and a crocodile to rats. Fish are also symbols, not only the productions of depth unconscious, but also of the sexual instinct and male, because of the phallic shape.
The snake, a phallic symbol par excellence, is also, beyond that, a symbol of the free energy that Hindus have deified the goddess of fire Kundalini rising in the man's body along the spine to lead the yogi to enlightenment "
Stephen PERROT
book excerpt 21 1983
