The Seba library treats Cage in 8 passages, across 5 authors (including Perel, Esther, Hari, Johann, Ogden, Pat).
the great cage of our domesticity kills sex in a man
Lawrence’s epigraph, foregrounded by Perel, frames domestic captivity as a cage that extinguishes erotic vitality, establishing the book’s central thesis about the antagonism between intimacy and desire.
, Mating in captivity sex, lies and domestic bliss, 2007thesis
the rats in isolated cages used up to 25 milligrams of morphine a day… But the rats in the happy cages used hardly any morphine at all
Alexander’s Rat Park experiment demonstrates that the cage as isolating environment — not the substance — is the primary driver of addictive behavior, radically relocating pathology from the individual to the relational surround.
, Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction, 2015thesis
arizona-s-shameless-about-the-human-cage-death-of-marcia-powell
The reference to Marcia Powell’s death in a ‘human cage’ literalizes the penal use of the cage as an instrument of lethal degradation, grounding the symbolic register in documented social violence.
, Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction, 2015supporting
A lot of people didn’t have a lot of dignity to begin with, to come here, and what they did have is taken away. Everything… is about humiliating us until there’s nothing left.
The carceral environment of Tent City functions as a cage that systematically destroys psychic integrity, illustrating how punitive enclosure compounds rather than addresses the underlying wounds of addiction.
, Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction, 2015supporting
the rat maintains proximity to its cage-mate but uses autoregulatory, immobilizing strategies to avoid danger and increase safety
Ogden’s use of the cage-mate relationship illustrates how disorganized attachment and immobilizing defenses can coexist with proximity-seeking, linking the cage environment to the neurobiology of trauma response.
, Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy, 2006supporting
the Hole consists of a series of tiny concrete solitary cells laid out in rows
The ‘Hole’ as an extreme cage-within-a-cage enacts solitary confinement as the ultimate psychic annihilation, extending the symbolic logic of the cage to its punitive extreme.
, Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction, 2015supporting
in the tower they became prisoners of their equally devilish intellect
Nichols’s reading of the Tower Tarot card implies a psychological cage built from intellectual pride, connecting the motif of enclosure to the inflation and subsequent fall of consciousness.
, Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey, 1980aside
Cavalcante, in his blind prison, mourns for the beauty of light
Dante’s flaming tomb functions as an eternal cage that reveals individual character through the manner of its endurance, suggesting that confinement discloses rather than effaces the soul’s essential nature.
, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, 1953aside