Compartment

The Seba library treats Compartment in 6 passages, across 6 authors (including Jung, C.G., von Franz, Marie-Louise, Victor Turner, Victor Witter Turner).

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The com-partments were gone. I had another case, a very charming man who had relations with five women, including his wife, at the same time... that man had his girls in differe

Jung presents compartmentalization as a structural dissociation in which incompatible erotic relationships are sealed into separate psychic sectors, each rendered invisible to the others, and argues that analysis dissolves these partitions.

Jung, C.G., Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928-1930, 1984thesis

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people who draw their real secret of life, their power and their life possibility, from something with which their actions do not coincide. In a human being one would call that compartment psychology.

Von Franz coins 'compartment psychology' to describe individuals and mass movements whose source of meaning is radically incompatible with their enacted behavior, a condition she traces in both fairy-tale giants and institutional leaders.

von Franz, Marie-Louise, Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales, 1974thesis

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A partition of branches is made across the center, dividing it into two compartments. Each of these compartments is eventually filled with sets of ritual objects.

Turner describes a literal physical compartmentalization within the Ndembu ritual vessel, noting that even senior officiants disagree about the symbolic valence assigned to each partition, thereby externalizing in sacred space the ambiguity that depth psychology locates internally.

Victor Turner, Victor Witter Turner, The Ritual Process Structure and Anti-Structure, 1966supporting

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when I am playing at cards in my compartment, I see the neighbouring train move off, even if it is really mine which is st

Merleau-Ponty uses a railway compartment as a phenomenological illustration of how perceptual anchoring overrides objective motion, a usage that is incidental rather than conceptually central to the term's depth-psychological meaning.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, Phenomenology of Perception, 1962aside

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visceral compartment, 42, 96, 104–106

Craig's index entry situates the visceral compartment as a discrete anatomical zone within interoceptive neuroanatomy, offering a somatic correlate to the psychological notion of sealed interior spaces.

Craig, A.D. (Bud), How Do You Feel? An Interoceptive Moment with Your Neurobiological Self, 2015aside

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the animals choose between the safety of the black compartment and receiving the drug in the white compartment at some perceived risk

Naqvi uses 'compartment' in its literal behavioral-neuroscience sense — a physically separate chamber in a conditioned place preference apparatus — with no direct psychological meaning.

Naqvi, Nasir H., The insula and drug addiction: an interoceptive view of pleasure, urges, and decision-making, 2010aside

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