The Seba library treats Cotton in 4 passages, across 3 authors (including Jung, C.G., Alexander, Bruce K., Onians, R B).
a black excrement which injures the cotton even in that part of the capsule not devoured by the worm. That must be something particular.
Jung uses the cotton boll and worm’s toxic excrement as a dream image to argue that unconscious neurotic elements contaminate the psychic ‘crop’ beyond what they directly consume, illustrating a double mechanism of psychic spoiling.
, Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928-1930, 1984thesis
He is a sensation type, of the strictest common sense, there is no mystery in his world, it is all perfectly explained, so much cotton at such and such a price.
Jung employs the cotton-market idiom to characterize the sensation type’s purely literal, economistic worldview, against which the eruption of unconscious content proves maximally disorienting.
, Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928-1930, 1984thesis
British bankers continued to finance it and British industry continued to use slave-grown cotton (Ankomah, 2007).
Alexander cites the continued industrial use of slave-grown cotton to document how British capital perpetuated structural exploitation even after formal abolitionist legislation, situating addiction within a history of economic dislocation.
, The Globalisation of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit, 2008supporting
the feet of the corpse should not touch the ground, and they are generally covered with a cotton cloth and supported in the lap of the daughter-in-law.
Onians notes the use of cotton cloth in funerary ritual to protect the corpse’s feet from earthly contact, situating the material within archaic body-soul boundary practices.
, The origins of European thought about the body, the mind,, 1988aside