The Seba library treats Bell in 8 passages, across 7 authors (including von Franz, Marie-Louise, James, William, Bloom, Harold).
the wonderful bell sound, which I could still hear, was nothing other than the beat of my own heart, or that this
Von Franz presents the dream-bell as a depth-psychological archetype in which an apparently transcendent auditory signal is revealed to originate within the dreamer's own body, collapsing the distance between sacred summons and interior life.
, Psychotherapy, 1993thesis
Mohammed is said to have answered that sometimes he heard a knell as from a bell, and that this had the strongest effect on him; and when the angel went away, he had received the revelation.
James documents the bell-knell as a phenomenological marker of prophetic revelation, positioning the auditory threshold experience as a recurring feature of religious consciousness across traditions.
, The Varieties of Religious Experience Amazon, 1902thesis
As Hart was swinging the clapper of the great bell, half drunk with its mighty music, the swift tropical dawn broke over the mountains. The sublimity of the scene and the thunder of the bells woke in Hart one of those gusts of joy of which only he was capable.
Bloom frames Crane's physical encounter with the bell as a daimonic initiatory event that precipitated the composition of 'The Broken Tower,' positioning the bell as catalyst for the American Sublime.
, The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime, 2015thesis
the first factor in Mowrer's theory involves learning by association, or classical conditioning, as in Pavlov's early experiments in which a bell, termed a conditioned stimulus (CS), was paired with a shock, or unconditioned stimulus (UCS).
Shapiro situates the bell as the founding paradigm case of the conditioned stimulus in behavioral trauma theory, establishing its role in the mechanistic account of fear acquisition and avoidance that EMDR seeks to treat.
, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures, 2001supporting
take to thee first my little bell, which until thou reach the well that we have mentioned shall be speechless; but when thou attainest to it the little bell will with a clear melodious voice speak out: so shalt thou know the well.
Campbell preserves a Celtic hagiographic tradition in which the bell functions as a divining instrument, finding its voice only upon contact with a sacred site — a mythological encoding of the bell as an oracle of sacred place.
, Occidental Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume III, 1964supporting
immediately after a shock has been delivered to an animal's foot, for instance, the animal will exhibit exaggerated withdrawal and escape responses to a bell, a tone, or a soft touch.
Kandel uses the bell as the paradigm stimulus in sensitization research, demonstrating how threat experience lowers response thresholds and generalizes fear across neutral signals — a neurobiological counterpart to depth psychology's account of trauma.
, In search of memory the emergence of a new science of mind, 2006supporting
The first drops of urine close the circuit between the wire screens, causing a low-voltage battery-powered doorbell to ring. The sound of the bell inhibits the flow of urine and wakes the child.
James documents a behavioural application of Pavlovian conditioning in which the bell serves as a therapeutic interruptive signal, illustrating the bell's clinical deployment within learning-theory frameworks.
, The Principles of Psychology, 1890supporting
BELL PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. New York
The Trickster, a foundational text for Jungian-archetypal scholarship on the shadow and trickster figure, was published by Bell Publishing Company — a bibliographic datum marking the institutional dissemination of depth-psychological ideas.
, The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology, 1956aside