One of my favourite books is A DICTIONARY OF SYMBOLS by J.E. Cirlot. My copy dates from 1976 and was picked up in an Oxfam shop in Totnes. It has an interesting entry under Journey...
"Travelling, Jung observes, is an image of aspiration, of an unsatisfied longing that never finds its goal, seek were it may. He goes on to point out that this goal is in fact the lost Mother; but this is a moot point, for we might equally well say that, on the contrary, its journey is a flight from the Mother."
I have decided to carry a small print of Epstein's 'Madonna and Child' with me on my journey to the Sea (El mar) and time will tell if I'm searching or fleeing or both...