Seba Method

The Seba Method is a Peterson-formulated procedure for reading the soul through four ratios — four distinct modes of giving a rational account of psychic material. It is the methodological spine of the Seba project: the discipline by which a reader, working with Sebastian, converts immediate experience into structured self-knowledge.

The first of the four is ratio-desiderii, the reason of desire. It asks what a longing knows about the soul that the longing’s surface object does not name. The remaining three are not yet written; this concept is a placeholder for the full quaternity once each is given its Latin and its classical-Jungian substrate.

The Method does not depart from the Lineage. It names operations the tradition already conducts. carl-jung makes feeling-as-rational-valuation available as the structural claim that desire admits of judgment; james-hillman supplies the metaxy — the inserted interval — in which the operation occurs (Hillman, The Myth of Analysis, p. 73). The Method’s claim is that these capacities can be deployed methodically, rather than encountered accidentally in analysis.

A ratio in this sense carries the Latin double sense: a measure (the proportion the soul holds toward its object) and an account (the reasoning the soul gives of itself). The Seba Method teaches the reader to give an account in four registers; ratio desiderii is the first.

Relationships

• ratio-desiderii
• feeling-as-rational-valuation
• individuation
• soul-making

Primary sources

• jung-psychological-types (Jung 1921)
• hillman-myth-of-analysis (Hillman 1972)
• edinger-ego-and-archetype (Edinger 1972)