[47] I now come back for a moment to what I said about language^a having both meaning and power. The power^b element is stronger in the realm of symbolic language; the meaning^c element is stronger where we use signs. In mathematics^d we have definite meanings expressed in signs^e. In art also we have meaning, but a meaning which is united with power in such a way that the power element, the opening element, is stronger. Now let me give here something which we have forgotten. If symbols^f have the power of opening up reality and the soul, then they must have healing power.^g That is what they actually have. I believe that the mental disorders which are growing so tremendously in our culture are partly due to the fact that there are no sufficiently healing symbols any more. Of course symbols have healing power ONLY if they are acknowledged as symbols, if they really express what they are supposed to express, for people. But IF they do so, then the vision of a symbol, the hearing of music, the looking at a picture--not to speak about religious symbolism--have in themselves healing power because they open up things which are shut off, which are repressed, which belong to the totality of our being, but are not allowed, because there are other elements in our being [which are] more strong--technical, intellectual, etc.--and they are shut off. Now they are opened; and if they are opened, then healing power PROVES that symbols are not only bearers of meaning, but also bearers of power.