Cardano

Cardano, Girolamo, Jung's seminars concerning Cardano's dreams, 122n1, 123–35 passim, 151, 194–95; dream of Alexander, Hephaestion, and the lion, 173–80; dream of the black sun (sol niger), 181–83, 185

This index entry maps the full scope of Jung's engagement with Cardano's dream series across the seminar, enumerating each individual dream and its thematic content as a structured object of depth-psychological analysis.

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De propria vita: The Book of My Life, trans. Jean Stoner (Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1931). Cf. Synesiorum somniorum omnis generis insomnia explicantes libri quattuor... Another psychological study of Cardanus's life and dreams is by Enrico Rivari

Jung grounds his seminar material in Cardano's primary autobiographical and oneirological texts while acknowledging a prior psychological monograph on Cardano, situating the seminars within a scholarly tradition of interpreting Cardano's inner life.

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the drama's turning point thus anticipates matters that Jung has it illuminate in retrospect… Jung shows that the process has already indicated that Cardano missed this appointment with part of his destiny

Jung argues that Cardano's dream of the black sun, strategically repositioned in the seminar's pedagogic sequence, reveals how the dream process itself anticipated a fateful failure in Cardano's individuation.

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See also Cardano, Girolamo, Jung's seminars concerning Cardano's dreams; Hubbard, John (alias Peter Blobbs), Jung's discussion of the dreams of

The index cross-references Cardano's dream series alongside other extended dream case studies treated in Jung's seminars, confirming his status as one of the seminar's primary analytical subjects.

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Rivari, Enrico. La Mente di Girolamo Cardano. Bologna: Zanichelli, 1906.

The bibliography cites Rivari's psychological monograph on Cardano's mind, establishing the scholarly lineage within which Jung's own dream analysis of Cardano is situated.

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I had this dream when my situation was highly complicated; perhaps it was formed nat… she only added: 'There are five palaces in this city.' 'As far as I see,' I said, 'there are more than twenty.'

A verbatim dream text from Cardano — the dream of the city called Bacchetta — is presented as raw interpretive material in the seminar, illustrating the symbolic role of number and place-name in his dream life.

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Girolamo Cardano (De subtilitate, 1547) and Leonardo da Vinci, for instance, had believed that burning adds weight to things because in the process they lose their celestial lightness, their innate breath of the world soul

Hillman invokes Cardano as a Renaissance natural philosopher whose cosmological conviction — that combustion expels the world soul's celestial lightness — exemplifies the alchemical imagination underlying pre-chemical science.

Hillman, James, Alchemical Psychology, 2010supporting

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The main idea of Synesius is that the dream has an anticipatory character. Dreams bring in new attitudes. They anticipate events and changes.

Jung's discussion of Synesius's doctrine of dream anticipation provides the theoretical framework within which Cardano's dreams are hermeneutically situated throughout the seminar.

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