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What would you say the bow and arrow represent?.. We have first to amplify the bow and arrow. What does that suggest?

A: Eros.

A bow and arrow would indicate direction-- something is pointed at an object. The libido has been directed, just as happens if you fall in love: you are swimming along in the stream of life and suddenly you are shot at, and then you go home and think of that woman or man from morning till night. Suddenly all the libido is directed and concentrated there. You do not want to think about it, but then you begin to wonder whether you will meet that person tomorrow at the same place, and so on, for that's where the energy is.

Therefore you can say the bow and arrow have to do with the sudden directedness of the unconscious libido; it has to do with the projection, for an arrow is a projectile and through projection the libido gets pointed. It is just the same if you hate someone. There is even a saying which questions who is closer to God-- I believe it is an Indian saying-- he who loves him or he who hates him? And the answer is the man who hates him, because he will think of God even more often and more intensely than the one who loves him, for his bow and arrow are constantly directed, that is the direction of the libido through projection.