SECTION I

INTROVERSION AND REGENERATION
A. INTROVERSION AND INTRO-DETERMINATION
THE multiple interpretation of works of fantasy has become our problem, and the diametrical oppo- sition of the psychoanalytic and the anagogic inter- pretation has particularly struck us. The question now apparently becomes more complicated if I show that the psychoanalytic interpretation contains an analogue that we must take into consideration. The analogue is presented by the remarkable coexistence of symbolism of material and functional categories in the same work of imagination. In order to make myself intelligible, I must first of all explain what these categories are.
In division 2 of the introductory part we have seen that the imagination shows a predilection for symbolic forms of expression, proportionately greater indeed, the more dreamlike it is. Now by this symbolism as we observe most clearly in hypna- gogic (half dreaming) hallucinations and in dreams, three different groups of objects are represented.