The Seba library treats Amulet in 8 passages, across 6 authors (including Peterson, Cody, Edinger, Edward F., Jung, Carl Gustav).
it was as much his own life force as it is the “medicine” in his amulet, or the mana emanating from his chief… the first demonstrable conception of an all-pervading spiritual force.
This passage establishes the amulet as the primary material locus of mana in archaic religious consciousness, making it equivalent to an externalized projection of personal life force — the earliest form of the God-image.
, The Shadow of a Figure of Light, 2024thesis
Through the centuries a series of images has crystallized out of the collective psyche to serve the function of “amulet against the archetypal powers.”
Edinger redefines the entire canon of Christian sacred imagery as collectively performing the psychological function of an amulet — protective containment against the overwhelming force of autonomous archetypal energies.
, The Christian Archetype: A Jungian Commentary on the Life of Christ, 1987thesis
The amulet, which is three-cornered, may date from the first or second century A. D. … The illustrations of the coniunctio in the Rosarium, showing King, Queen, and the dove of the Holy Ghost, correspond to the figures on the amulet exactly.
Jung identifies a specific triangular Egypto-Hellenistic amulet as an anticipatory symbol of the alchemical coniunctio and the Christian Trinity, locating the amulet within the genealogy of the most central religious archetypes.
, Mysterium Coniunctionis: An Inquiry into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy, 1955thesis
Christ: agony of, 70, 73 as amulet, 15-16
Edinger explicitly indexes Christ under ‘amulet’, indicating that the Christ-figure itself is analyzed in the book as performing the psychic function of an apotropaic symbol.
, The Christian Archetype: A Jungian Commentary on the Life of Christ, 1987supporting
fascinum was a standard Roman term for the male member, as amulet, gesture, graffito, or trinket, to ward off evil and bring good luck.
Hillman recovers the phallic amulet (fascinum) as the operative figure behind fascination and pornography, situating the amulet within the apotropaic logic of Dionysian and Priapic symbolism.
, Mythic Figures, 2007supporting
-εια [f.] ‘protection, amulet’ (Poet. de herb., gloss.), as if from *-εuw, if not for -ία
The etymological lexicon traces the Greek derivation of ‘amulet’ from the word-family of phylax (guardian/protector), grounding the term’s protective semantics in its linguistic origins.
, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010supporting
spell(s), see charm(s)/spell(s)/amulet(s)
The index of Jung’s Dream Analysis seminar groups amulets with charms and spells, indicating their functional equivalence within the practical magical-symbolic domain addressed by analytical psychology.
, Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928-1930, 1984aside
amulet, 261 double, divine-human, 260f, 360 of God, Pharaoh, and ka, 260, 265
The Mysterium Coniunctionis index locates the amulet within the context of the divine-human double and the Egyptian theological triad, reinforcing its role as a symbolic nexus for Trinitarian and coniunctio themes.
, Mysterium Coniunctionis: An Inquiry into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy, 1955aside