Objectives:
The article presents the changing views on issues of symbols and symbolism, paying particular attention to the dynamic aspect of formation and operation of the symbol.

Methods:
analysis of the literature

Results:
attached in applications

Conclusions:
Reading symbolic meanings since the beginning of the analytical theory was something extremely important. Symbols regarded as an expression of mental life become stone cornerstone of psychoanalysis. However, even though intellectually tempting same quest for meaning symbols, there has been an essential prerequisite for further development of the theory and knowledge psychoanalytic. What has become the largest driving force of progress was a question about the process itself create a symbol and its function in the psychic life. While focused on anthropology internal aspects of symbols, their internal and external relations and trade, in fact presenting the same a static image of the symbol. Psychoanalytic theory has developed a dynamic image function, use, variability remaining symbols in relation to the unconscious.The development of psychoanalytic theory was also reflected in clinical practice, which creatively uses concepts of symbols in the therapy process. Initially, the understanding of the symbol as the work done once and for all, evolved up to the point where we understand now, thanks to the work of Bion, that the creation of symbols is the process of continually communication (derived a continuous projective identification), on which the life and mental health.