The Seba library treats Autochthonous in 5 passages, across 3 authors (including Hillman, James, Jung, Carl Gustav, Victor Turner, Victor Witter Turner).
autochthonous, urge of psyche, 27; image, 70; powers, 147
Hillman’s index explicitly categorizes ‘autochthonous’ as a descriptor for the psyche’s fundamental urge, for imaginal content, and for the powers native to the underworld realm, marking it as a core structural concept in his depth-psychological framework.
, The Dream and the Underworld, 1979thesis
as the twice-born they had their roots in the divinity itself… more than autochthonous animalia sprung from the earth
Jung deploys ‘autochthonous’ to mark the merely earth-born, natural human condition against which the pneumatic transformation of twice-born selfhood — rooted in the divine rather than the soil — is defined.
, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1963thesis
a distinction familiar in Africa between the politically or militarily strong and the subdued autochthonous people, who are nevertheless ritually potent
Turner identifies autochthonous peoples as structurally inferior in political terms yet paradoxically invested with ritual power, a configuration that parallels depth psychology’s insistence on the chthonic as both subordinate and numinously potent.
, The Ritual Process Structure and Anti-Structure, 1966supporting
natural: 79; & chthonic, 42; sensations, 192; perspective, 133, 160
Hillman’s index collocates the natural with the chthonic, providing the conceptual neighborhood in which autochthonous content operates within his underworld psychology.
, The Dream and the Underworld, 1979supporting
Oedipus belonged to the race Spartoi, ‘Dragon people,’ supposedly a matriarchy without paternal principle
Hillman’s reference to the Spartoi — literally earth-born warriors — invokes the mythological background of autochthonous origin in the context of Oedipal psychology and the absence of paternal principle.
, Senex & Puer, 2015aside