The iconoclast attack upon the image – which epitomizes the attack of spirit upon soul – takes place not only in the concrete smashing of statues, burning of altars, and defacing icons. We continue the iconoclast habit and destroy images in religion and literature through allegory and in psychology through conceptual interpretation. (This kitten in your dream is your feeling function; this dog, your sexual desire; this great snake coiled in the corner is your unconscious, or mother, or anxiety.) The image is slain and stuffed with concepts or vanishes into an abstraction.
— Healing Fiction, The Pandaemonium of Images