The Seba library treats Background in 9 passages, across 8 authors (including Welwood, John, Smythe, William E., Damasio, Antonio R.).
It operates in the background of the experiential field, whose foreground consists of the workings of focal attention, which pinpoints discrete objects of thought, feeling, and perception.
Welwood argues that holistic, nonreflective body-mind processing constitutes the background of experience, structurally prior to and irreducible by focal attention.
, Toward a Psychology of Awakening Buddhism, Psychotherapy,, 2000thesis
Background understanding, or pre-understanding, is a notion that has played a fundamental role in modern hermeneutic philosophy... It refers to the tacit, inarticulate, taken-for-granted contexts of human meaning that are grounded in our embodied capacities, dispositions, shared practices and forms of life.
Smythe, via Taylor, identifies background understanding as the hermeneutic condition of intelligibility—the inarticulate, embodied matrix that constitutes dialogical selfhood prior to any intentional act.
, The Dialogical Jung: Otherness within the Self, 2013thesis
I will talk about three levels of emotion—background, primary, and secondary. This is revolutionary enough for one day, given that background emotions are not part of the usual roster of emotions.
Damasio formally proposes 'background emotions' as a distinct neurobiological stratum—continuous, subliminal somatic states that underpin but are excluded from classical emotion taxonomies.
, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, 1999thesis
background emotion and, 87–89, 92-93, 99-101, 104, 105-6, 123, 216
The index of Damasio's work reveals the systematic centrality of background emotion to his account of core consciousness, attention, and neurological disruption.
, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, 1999supporting
God is always so represented in the Bible, for he is not comprehensible in his presence, as is Zeus; it is always only 'something' of him that appears, he always extends into depths.
Auerbach contrasts Homeric foreground-style with the Biblical mode of 'background,' in which persons—and divinity above all—possess inexhaustible depth, layered temporality, and resistant interiority.
, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, 1953thesis
The unus mundus is like a primordial background that sporadically manifests in synchronistic phenomena as a creatio continua, 'as the continuous creation of a pattern that exists from all eternity, repeats itself sporadically, and is not derivable from any known antecedents.'
Von Franz positions the unus mundus as a metaphysical 'primordial background,' the eternal substrate from which synchronistic events erupt as instances of continuous creation.
, Psyche and Matter, 2014thesis
observations make sense, because the measuring instruments are connected with a meaningful background of the objects that are measured... observations of atoms are a problem, because their background isn't known.
Drawing on Eddington, the authors argue that meaningful observation requires a known background context, and that the unknowable interior of atoms marks the limit of this epistemic condition.
, Carl Gustav Jung, Quantum Physics and the Spiritual Mind: A Mystical Vision of the Twenty-First Century, 2013supporting
This world behind, below, and above us appears to us as the unconscious.
Jung identifies the spatial metaphor of background—what lies behind, below, and above conscious life—with the unconscious itself, the unseen ground of psychic experience.
, Civilization in Transition, 1964supporting
The trauma egg was created by Murray (2012) over thirty years ago. It is a powerful way of taking an inventory of traumatic life experiences as you
Winhall references a clinical tool called the 'Background Wallpaper'—the pervasive, unexamined context of accumulated trauma shaping present experience—as part of a trauma-mapping framework.
, Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Modelaside