The Seba library treats Corridor in 7 passages, across 5 authors (including Bosnak, Robert, Easwaran, Eknath, Kerényi, Carl).
I’m walking along a long dark corridor. It’s really pitch dark. It looks like a kind of very long tunnel. In front of me, I see light coming from a crack under a gigantic door.
Bosnak presents the corridor as a dream archetype of threshold passage, its darkness and terminating blinding light together constituting the classic liminal structure of psychic transformation.
, A Little Course in Dreams, 1986thesis
He stood in that hospital at the end of a long, long corridor, waiting. Many of those in the hospital beds would reach him soon… in time, everyone had to go down that corridor and meet Death.
Easwaran deploys the hospital corridor as a universal thanatological symbol through which Yama, the Vedic god of death, waits, making the corridor the mandatory passage each mortal must traverse.
, Essence of the Upanishads: A Key to Indian Spiritualitythesis
He stood in that hospital at the end of a long, long corridor, waiting… in time, everyone had to go down that corridor and meet Death.
A parallel rendering of the same Upanishadic reading confirms the corridor’s role as the obligatory passage toward mortality and self-transcendence in the Katha Upanishad’s teaching.
, The Upanishadssupporting
The Bear Dreamer remembers that he is in a long white corridor with windows looking out over the front of the hospital… Now in a full flashback with the accompanying hypnagogic state, the dreaming ambience re-establishes itself.
Bosnak demonstrates how the corridor, as a re-entered dream environment through embodied imagination, becomes the liminal container in which the autonomous bear-figure erupts from the unconscious.
, Embodiment: Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel, 2007thesis
In the meander pattern of this lower corridor fresco the path was represented not by the lines but by the broad intervals. One who follows the direction of the intervals will not be diverted from the path by the interruptions.
Kerenyi identifies the Minoan labyrinthine corridor fresco as an archetypal image of zoë—uninterrupted life-force—in which passage itself, defined by its intervals rather than its boundaries, encodes mythic continuity.
, Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life, 1976supporting
We focused on ‘everyday corridor conversations about change.’ We designed a software-driven, video-rich DVD to help all staff use more flexible communication styles when trying to promote change.
Miller uses ‘corridor conversations’ as a practical metaphor for informal therapeutic exchanges in institutional settings, giving the corridor a social rather than symbolic valence.
, Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change, Third Edition, 2013aside
The term ‘Downtown Eastside’ is quite often used in Vancouver to refer to what is being called the ‘Hastings Corridor’ in this book.
Alexander employs ‘corridor’ in a sociological-geographical sense to designate Vancouver’s most dislocation-afflicted urban zone, framing it as a spatial concentration of psychosocial marginalization.
, The Globalisation of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit, 2008aside