The following is an excerpt from James Hillman's book DREAM ANIMALS co-authored by painter Margot McLean:
"Often I begin a workshop on animal images with the snake. The snake works like a charm, freeing people of their insidious notions of snake symbolism, and therefore of animal symbolism in general. The questions I ask sound like this: "How do you understand a snake image?" "What does a snake mean?" "What's your interpretation?" I have assembled and condensed the replies:
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