The term ‘Bud’ appears in the depth-psychology corpus in three distinct registers that, taken together, reveal the breadth of the library’s concerns. First and most extensively, ‘Bud’ functions as the proper name of Bud Osborn — poet, addict, and community organizer — in Johann Hari’s Chasing the Scream, where it anchors a sustained meditation on addiction, social death, collective trauma, and the redemptive power of solidarity. Here ‘Bud’ is less a psychological category than an incarnate case study in what Hari frames as the social determinants of addiction and recovery. Second, Jung’s Symbols of Transformation invokes the bud as an archetypal image — the state of being ‘guarded in modest bud’ — linking latency, maternal protection, and the pre-individuated psyche to solar mythology and the birth of consciousness. This botanical-symbolic usage connects Simondon’s parallel treatment of budding as a biological mode of reproduction involving undifferentiated, proliferating elements. Third, ‘Bud’ appears as the familiar name of neurobiologist A.D. (Bud) Craig, whose work on interoception and the insular cortex is represented in the corpus. The convergence of these three registers — social-traumatic, archetypal-symbolic, and neuroscientific — makes ‘Bud’ a useful index of the library’s interdisciplinary range, even as each usage demands its own interpretive framework.
I kept being told — again and again — that it had changed radically in the past decade… and one name always featured in it: Bud Osborn. He’s a poet, people said. He was a homeless addict. He changed this place.
This passage establishes Bud Osborn as the central transformative figure of the Downtown Eastside, framing addiction and recovery as fundamentally communal and political rather than merely individual phenomena.
, Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction, 2015thesis
Bud slowly realized what was being said. The authorities were nonchalantly declaring that he and his friends would all die, and then the problem would be over.
Bud’s political awakening is narrated as a recognition of structural abandonment, converting his personal suffering into collective advocacy for the right to life among addicts.
, Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction, 2015thesis
Chastely guarded / In modest bud; / Their spirits / Blossom eternally… Being ‘guarded in modest bud’ is an image that is found in Plutarch, where it is said that the sun is born at dawn from a flower bud.
Jung reads the bud as an archetypal image of latency and protected pre-emergence, linking it cross-culturally to solar birth, divine innocence, and the pre-individuated psyche.
, Symbols of Transformation, 1952thesis
He hoped that one day, he might write one poem that did for another human being what their poetry had done for him. Bud volunteered for VISTA, one of the antipoverty programs set up by Lyndon Johnson.
Bud Osborn’s vocation as a poet is presented as a form of psychic survival and proto-therapeutic ambition, grounding depth-psychological concepts of creative healing in lived biographical experience.
, Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction, 2015supporting
Bud didn’t want to be an addict — he knew shooting street heroin was a bad idea, for all the obvious reasons — so he spent five years without using, attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings every night across America, and he was constantly depressed.
Bud’s protracted struggle with addiction and suicidality illustrates Hari’s argument that abstinence without connection is insufficient, foregrounding the relational basis of psychological recovery.
, Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction, 2015supporting
The addicts started to insist on being at every meeting where drug policy was discussed. They took a slogan from the movements of psychiatric patients who were fighting to be treated decently: ‘Nothing about us, without us.’
The political mobilization Bud helped catalyze is situated within a broader tradition of psychiatric survivor activism, connecting addiction to questions of dignity, agency, and institutional power.
, Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction, 2015supporting
Throughout 2013, Bud kept getting sick. He had a lot of pain in his back — the legacy of his ti
The narrative closes Bud’s arc with bodily decline, underscoring that transformation of a community does not exempt the transforming individual from the long somatic consequences of a traumatic life.
, Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction, 2015supporting
neurobiologist Bud Craig has identified an area deep inside the mammalian brain — the insular cortex — as the place where interoception, or the processing of bodily stimuli, generates feelings.
A.D. (Bud) Craig’s identification of the insular cortex as the seat of interoceptive feeling represents a neuroscientific contribution to the corpus’s broader investigation of how bodily states become conscious experience.
, How Do You Feel? An Interoceptive Moment with Your Neurobiological Self, 2015supporting
HOW DO YOU FEEL? An interoceptive moment with your neurobiological self A. D. (Bud) Craig
The title page confirms A.D. (Bud) Craig’s authorship and the work’s central concern with interoception, situating neuroscientific inquiry within the corpus’s investigation of embodied selfhood.
, How Do You Feel? An Interoceptive Moment with Your Neurobiological Self, 2014supporting
the outer lining of the body is what easily produces buds, which eventually separate from their point of origin… What the two modes of reproduction have in common (budding and schizogony) is the existence of undifferentiated and dedifferentiated elements.
Simondon uses budding as a biological model of individuation through undifferentiated proliferation, implicitly relevant to depth-psychological accounts of psychic differentiation from an undivided substrate.
, Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, 2020aside