It seems to me that most people in our culture have lost the capacity for interacting deeply with the symbolic. This is the result, in my view, of having become overly abstract, and disconnected from our bodies and our physical worlds. Someone who cannot feel the rain or wind, or sunshine, or moon, or hear the grass rustling, cannot really connect with something which exists in a precognitive realm, at least without recourse to group ritual, within which they can submerge themselves.
And I have often spoken of the Sensation/Image, and Emotion/Thought dyads. What I would speculate here is that symbols are images, and as such connected to sensations, not emotions. Emotions can come from them, but that is not where their primary reality lives.
I am going to go watch the rain some more, but will wonder aloud how Jung used his body. Or Freud.
It is reasonable to speculate that something like Feldenkrais, which also exists as a purely neurophysiological system devoid of any metaphysics, might be vastly more useful than any talk therapy in the long run for most people. I think I called this Somaticism in the past. Perhaps Somatocentric Therapy might be another addition to that, although I may have said that too. That would have been 5-10 years ago I was wandering along those lines.
Our viscera have a word to add in every conversation, which cannot not be said, but is seemingly only rarely heard.