The Seba library treats Civil War in 8 passages, across 8 authors (including Woodman, Marion, Sanford, John A., Levine, Peter A.).
“inner civil war.” MW: Yes, inner civil war. And that’s why so many people try to drown themselves in the addiction. As soon as the rage begins to come up, they start eating or drinking
Woodman explicitly names intrapsychic conflict between suppressed emotion and addictive numbing as ‘inner civil war,’ making it a primary clinical concept in her somatic-psychological framework.
, Conscious Femininity: Interviews With Marion Woodman, 1993thesis
The dream begins by showing the problem of opposites dramatically as a civil war within the personality, a split between Southerners and Northerners.
Sanford interprets a dream’s Civil War imagery as the unconscious dramatization of a fundamental personality split, establishing civil war as the archetypal symbol of irreconcilable inner opposition.
, Dreams: Gods Forgotten Language, 1968thesis
By the time of the American Civil War—when Jung men were suddenly exposed to their comrades being blown into pieces by cannon fire… the term used to describe traumatic post-combat breakdown was soldier’s heart.
Levine situates the American Civil War as the historical moment when modern trauma symptomatology first acquired clinical naming, linking it to the origins of somatic trauma theory.
, In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness, 2010supporting
Cf. T. J. Pressley, ‘Civil-Military Relations in the United States Civil War,’ in War, ed. L. L. Farrar (Santa Barbara: Clio, 1978), 117–22
Hillman cites Civil War scholarship in the context of American Mars psychology, situating the war within a broader analysis of the nation’s conflicted relationship to martial power.
, Mythic Figures, 2007supporting
nothing in this respect could resemble the Civil War. Note that even Justice Sutherland’s dictum applies only to foreign affairs… the line between external and internal was also threatened subsequently
The passage uses the Civil War as the historical benchmark for the most extreme dissolution of the boundary between external and internal sovereignty, a juridical-political framing with psychological resonance.
, Encounters with the Soul: Active Imagination as Developed by C. G. Jung, 1981supporting
Roman society was fractured by incessant civil wars, barbarian invasions, gruesome mass executions, brutal slavery, ubiquitous secret police, institutionalised torture
Alexander invokes Roman civil wars as an index of social dislocation in a collapsing civilization, contextualizing addiction within conditions of total societal breakdown.
, The Globalisation of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit, 2008aside
civil war had broken out between forces loyal to Otho and Vitellius… Vespasian and his son Titus pacified Judea, and their rule restored a stability to the empire
Thielman references Roman civil war as historical background for understanding the apocalyptic imagery of Revelation, with no direct psychological application.
, Theology of the New Testament: A Canonical and Synthetic Approach, 2005aside
war, whether external or civil, is not the best, and the need of either is to be deprecated; but peace with one another, and good will, are best.
Plato’s Athenian Stranger distinguishes civil from external war while subordinating both to peace as the true legislative aim, providing a classical philosophical grounding for the war/peace polarity.
, Laws, -348aside