The Seba library treats Bubble in 6 passages, across 6 authors (including Hillman, James, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph D, Schwartz, Richard C).
Bulla (Latin) means bubble, bauble, trifle, vanity, inflated, expanding quickly and quickly passing; whence comes the Papal Bull or edict named for the hot bubb
Hillman derives the psychological resonance of 'bubble' from its Latin root bulla, establishing inflation, vanity, and transience as the term's archetypal semantic core within his mythopoetic lexicon.
, Animal Presences, 2008thesis
the very pressure that repression causes is rather like a bubble in the sidewall of a tire. Eventually, as the tire revolves and heats up, the pressure behind the bubble intensifies, causing it to explode outward
Estés employs the bubble as a structural metaphor for repressed shadow contents, arguing that accumulated psychic pressure behind a bubble-like resistance inevitably produces explosive symptomatic release.
, Women Who Run With the Wolves Myths and Stories of the Wild, 2017thesis
He could feel the evil bubble growing in him, the one that made everything a little emptier than it already was… It drifted toward him from out of nowhere now, as if it no longer needed to be called up
The 'evil bubble' here functions as a phenomenological rendering of the internal critic in IFS: an autonomous, invasive presence that expands within the psyche, draining rather than inflating meaning.
, Internal Family Systems Therapy, 1995supporting
Sin and corruption, I said, would as naturally bubble out of my heart as water would bubble out of a fountain.
James records a classic religious-experience confession in which 'bubble' conveys the involuntary, organic overflow of felt sinfulness — the self experienced as an inexhaustible source of moral pollution.
, The Varieties of Religious Experience Amazon, 1902supporting
pompholyx, -ugos [f.], also [m.], 'bubble' (Hp., Pl., Arist., Thphr.), metaphorically of a female hair ornament (Ar., Att. inscr.), of an architectural ornament
Beekes documents the Greek etymon for bubble, tracing its extension from natural phenomenon through ornamental, architectural, and medical usages, establishing the classical semantic field from which later symbolic deployments descend.
, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010supporting
It consisted of a page with a series of bubble shapes containing possible topics in some bubbles, with additional empty bubbles that could be filled in by the client
Miller uses 'bubble' in a purely technical, visual-aid sense within motivational interviewing's agenda-mapping protocol, without psychological-symbolic investment in the term itself.
, Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change, Third Edition, 2013aside