The Seba library treats Chimera in 7 passages, across 6 authors (including Harding, Esther, Descartes, René, Wiener, Jan).
she realizes that this sort of thing leads nowhere, that she is following a chimera—the Ghostly Lover who lures his victim away from life
Harding identifies the Chimera as the archetypal figure of the projected animus — the 'Ghostly Lover' — whose pursuit constitutes a compulsive, life-denying repetition in the animus-possessed woman.
, the way of all women, 1970thesis
whether I am imagining a goat or a chimera, it is no less true that I am imagining one than that I am imagining the other
Descartes uses the Chimera to establish that ideas considered purely as mental modifications cannot be false, a position that resonates with depth psychology's insistence on the autonomous reality of psychic images regardless of their external referents.
, Meditations on First Philosophy, 2008supporting
when I think of a human being, or a chimera, or the heavens, or an angel, or God
Descartes places the Chimera in a taxonomy of ideas — alongside angels and God — whose epistemic status turns on whether they correspond to extra-mental realities, raising the question of the ontological standing of purely imaginal constructs.
, Meditations on First Philosophy, 2008supporting
transference matrix, 95–100, 106, 107 transference neurosis, 12–13, 61, 64–68 … chimera, 98–99
Wiener indexes the Chimera as a distinct concept within the transference matrix, suggesting it names a specific illusory formation arising in the analytic relationship.
, The Therapeutic Relationship: Transference, Countertransference, and the Making of Meaning, 2009supporting
Chimera, 182
Jung's index to Symbols of Transformation places the Chimera in the context of archetypal figures and hero mythology, establishing it as a recognized element of the mythological material Jung analyses.
, Symbols of Transformation, 1952supporting
the elimination of drug trafficking and use, is no option at all—only a chimera that even the most Draconian measures have failed to conjure into reality anywhere in the world
Maté employs the Chimera as a rhetorical figure for a policy goal that is structurally impossible to achieve, extending the term's psychological resonance — the unattainable object — into socio-political critique.
, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction, 2008aside
The Chimera of His Age: Studies on St Bernard (Studies V)
The title 'The Chimera of His Age' applied to St Bernard signals the term's use in scholarly discourse as a descriptor for an elusive, contradictory, or impossible ideal — a usage that parallels the psychological meaning without engaging depth-psychology directly.
, Penthos: The Doctrine of Compunction in the Christian East, 1944aside