The Seba library treats Carriage in 6 passages, across 6 authors (including Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph D, Nietzsche, Friedrich, Carol K. Anthony).
this sort of ‘carrying’ conveyance is understood as the central mood of the psyche that transports us from one place in the psyche to another, from one idea to another, from one thought to another
Estés establishes the carriage as the primary archetypal symbol for the psyche’s self-transporting mood, while simultaneously warning that the gilded carriage entraps rather than liberates.
, Women Who Run With the Wolves Myths and Stories of the Wild, 2017thesis
as when your room trembles when a carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself.
Nietzsche dissolves the subject-object distinction by identifying total philosophical immersion as becoming the carriage itself — thought not reflected upon but inhabited and embodied.
, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1883thesis
We also ride in a carriage when we skip steps to accept unity before the correct conditions are firmly established. This is to use dubious means to achieve our goals.
Anthony reads the carriage in the I Ching as a cautionary symbol for premature ego-driven action that bypasses the organic unfolding of psychic conditions.
, A Guide to the I Ching, 1988thesis
Take the snake and put it on the car with the four wheels and let it return so often to the earth that the whole car sinks into the depths of the sea
Von Franz interprets an alchemical carriage-with-wheels as an image of the fourfold psychic structure undergoing deliberate dissolution and reconstitution through the opus of transformation.
, Psychotherapy, 1993supporting
Nestor insists that Telemachus must stay the night, and sends him off in the morning with gifts, a carriage to get to Sparta, and his son Pisistratus as a companion.
Homer situates the carriage as the literal vehicle of heroic initiation, conveying Telemachus from the safety of Nestor’s court toward the knowledge that will enable his maturation.
, The Odyssey, 2017supporting
The ego can take up a particular function and put it down, like a tool, in an awareness of its own reality outside the system of the four functions.
Though not directly naming the carriage, von Franz’s discussion of the psyche’s fourfold movement resonates structurally with the carriage-as-vehicle-of-psychic-transit motif.
, Lectures on Jung’s Typology, 2013aside