Back

The Seba library treats Back in 6 passages, across 5 authors (including Addenbrooke, Mary, Barrett, Lisa Feldman, Julian Jaynes).

In the library 6 passages

they could look back on the times when they had been firmly challenged or had a tough time facing their difficulties with the staff without too much rancour. They all wanted to give something back

Here ‘back’ carries genuine psychological valence, marking the retrospective capacity of recovered addicts to re-evaluate their treatment experience and the reciprocal impulse to contribute to the therapeutic community — a gesture of integration and gratitude that signals recovery’s social dimension.

Addenbrooke, Mary, Survivors of Addiction: Narratives of Recovery, 2011supporting

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cooperative than common chimps: Chimps and bonobos last shared a common ancestor about 1 million years ago. [back]

The bracketed ‘[back]’ here is purely a navigational endnote marker directing the reader to return from citation to text, characteristic of Barrett’s neuroscientific apparatus and carrying no psychological-theoretical content.

Barrett, Lisa Feldman, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, 2017aside

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this is a completely unwarranted assertion. See E. R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational. [back]

The repeated ‘[back]’ markers in Jaynes’s notes demarcate the evidentiary scaffolding for his claims about Greek irrationality and hallucination, with the navigation device underscoring the argumentative weight placed on philological and historical citation.

Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, 1976aside

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[Back to Note 1] From Robert H. Lowie, Primitive Religion. [Back to Note 2] Ruth Benedict, Patterns of Culture.

Campbell’s chapter on shamanism uses ‘[Back to Note]’ markers to anchor each claim about primitive religion and trance states in a dense network of comparative ethnography, illustrating the bibliographic architecture of his mythological method.

Campbell, Joseph, Primitive Mythology (The Masks of God, Volume I), 1959aside

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To find the first specimens of writing, we must go back to the middle of the third millennium bc and probably further still, to the fourth millennium.

Benveniste uses ‘go back’ as a temporal-archaeological directive, orienting the reader’s conceptual movement toward origins of writing systems, a usage resonant with depth-psychology’s own rhetoric of regression toward archaic strata.

Benveniste, Émile, Last Lectures: Collège de France 1968 and 1969, 2012aside

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