A container can represent:
- Control or restraint (physical, mental, emotional)
- A category or other way to organize thoughts, feelings, opinions, to-do list items, etc.
- Being or feeling organized or neat, especially as pertains to your state of mind (orderly or logical thinking).
- Keeping certain things together in your mind (objects, people, ideas, etc.).
- Being or feeling contained, restrained, or not allowed freedom.