our analysis must needs be incomplete when we between the normative consider the relationship elements in social life and the individual. For this relationship, too, finds its way into the meaning of ritual symbols. Here we come to the confines competence, for of our present anthropological we are now dealing with the structure and properties of psyches, a scientific field traditionally studied by other disciplines than ours. At one end of the symbol's sp spectrum of meanings we encounter psychologist and the social psychologist, and even beyond them (if one may make a friendly tilt at an envied friend), brandishing his Medusa's head, the psychoanalyst, ready to turn to stone the foolhardy interloper into his caverns of terminology