水的原型意义分析

Analyses of the Archetypal Meanings of Water

在人类文化生活中,水是一个重要的原型意象,在历史过程中不断反复出现。水原型的普遍性来自它的复合性,具有极为丰富的象征意义,细究起来简直难以计数。但从原型的角度去考察,最基本的象征意义只有女性意义、生命意义和道的意义。这三种意义交织互补,共同构建起水原型博大深邃的隐喻世界。

<Abstrcat>In our cultural life, water is an important archetypal image, appearing frequently in our history. The universality of water archetype comes from its diversity, which results in so many kinds of symbolic meanings that they can not be calculated exactly. Studying it from the archetypal perspective, however, we can find that water archetype only has three kinds of basic symbolic meanings: feminie, life and Tao, which intertwine and construct the broad and profound metaphorical world of water archetype .