sexual symbolism
Suggestive visual meaning
Sexual symbolism is the use of images, objects, or forms to represent sexuality, genitalia, or erotic themes indirectly.
Freudian psychology famously interprets towers, swords, and caves as unconscious sexual symbols.
The concept extends to art, literature, and dream analysis: Critics have long debated the sexual symbolism in Georgia O'Keeffe's flower paintings.
Sometimes the symbolism is intentional, sometimes projected by interpreters.
- Venus de MiloArmless marble goddess statue
- sacred feminineRevered female spiritual principle
- sacred marriageRitual union with deity
- wedding ritualsCustomary marriage ceremony acts
- libidoInnate erotic drive
fertility goddess · apple · serpent · forbidden fruit · yoni · primal instincts · Oedipal complex · lotus flower · red rose · repression · purity rings · fig leaf · fig tree · Georgia O'Keeffe · Jungian archetypes · dream interpretation · moon phases · shadow self
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Meaningful imagery in faith
sacred imagery · political symbolism · mathematical notation
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