A Snake (n.) is cold-blooded, unconscious and unrelated, both poison and cure — an excellent symbol of the unconscious and its sudden, painful, frightening interventions in our affairs.
The Snake (n.) always signals in dreams a discrepancy between the conscious attitude and instinct: "Look out! Danger ahead!"
A Snake (n.) symbolizes the numen of transformation and the transforming substance itself — the knife that kills and the buried grain that inseminates the earth.
A Snake (n.) means in dreams fear of life in youth and fear of death in age — and its poison can be an early symptom of bodily disease.
Snake (n.) dreams (n.) come when the conscious mind deviates from its instinctual basis — the snake is the spinal cord and cerebellum, the collective substratum.
A Snake (n.) symbolizes the cold-blooded, inhuman contents in us, abstractly intellectual or concretely animal — in a word, the extra-human quality in man.
A Snake (n.) is not an allegory: the "Son" has the form of a snake, not the other way round — when a primitive says "snake" he means an experience of the extrahuman.
A Snake (n.) is the lowest and the highest — devil and Son of God — the stranger that crawls over the sleeper, embodying our fear of the inhuman and our awe of the sublime.
A Snake (n.) carries a far stronger inner polarity than man — overt where his is latent — allegory of both Christ and the devil, older and cleverer than Adam.
A Snake (n.) is an excellent symbol of the unconscious in both aspects, its cold, ruthless instinctuality and its natural wisdom; Christ hung on the tree as the serpent personifies the unconscious sacrificed.
A Snake (n.) is the age-old form in which the dead hero lives on and is worshipped, and the form of the spirits of the dead, which may explain the worm stage of the phoenix.