Dynamic of philosophical concepts about symbols in psychoanalytical tradition

The relevance of the subject research is inspired by importance of research of symbolic world of culture in conditions of global transformations and the need to identify the heuristic opportunities to have the various approaches including the psychoanalytical one. This paper deals with reconstruction and comparison of philosophical views of S. Freud, C.G. Young, J. Lacan of symbols' nature, their importance for achievement of personhood and cultural processes. On this basis the author's interpretation of symbol understanding dynamics in classic and postclassic psychoanalysis is proposed.