The Seba library treats Crib in 7 passages, across 4 authors (including Jung, C.G., Neumann, Erich, Maté, Gabor).
he is still at an age when he has to be fenced in and protected... moral problems, they are kept strictly in the crib as if he w
Jung interprets the dreamer's appearance in a child's crib as a symbol of infantile psychological enclosure, diagnosing a mother-complex-driven conventionality that keeps moral life confined within infantile boundaries.
, Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928-1930, 1984thesis
in its character of crib, cradle, and nest, it is the bed of birth and, in its character of death tree, cross, gallows, coffin, and ship of the dead, it is the deathbed.
Neumann positions crib within the continuous symbolic chain of the Feminine vessel — cradle, nest, coffin, and ship — expressing the Great Mother's dual role as origin and terminus of existence.
, The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype, 1955thesis
The prevention of substance abuse needs to begin in the crib, and even before then, in the social recognition that nothing is more important for the future of our culture than the way children develop.
Maté uses the crib as a literal developmental threshold, arguing that the earliest environment of infancy is the primary site for preventing addiction and psychological harm.
, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction, 2008supporting
crib (dream 24), 531, 532-33) 534, 549, 547) 556, 558
The concordance index of Jung's Dream Analysis seminar confirms that the crib is a sustained, formally indexed symbol across multiple lecture sessions of Dream 24, indicating its analytical centrality in the case under study.
, Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928-1930, 1984supporting
child’s bed (dream 24), see crib
The seminar index equates 'child's bed' with 'crib,' establishing the term's technical usage as a dream symbol pointing to infantile psychic position in Jung's analytic framework.
, Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928-1930, 1984supporting
He is in a crib, in a kind of corner fighting the bogey in the mouse, and he has to come out in the open.
In the seminar discussion, Baynes summarizes the dreamer's predicament as being enclosed in a crib while confronting a feared instinctual content, underscoring the crib's function as symbol of constricted psychological space.
, Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928-1930, 1984supporting
palatial crib, but the child is notable only in being one with the rest of us.
Bion uses 'palatial crib' in passing while analyzing the Messianic component of basic-assumption group dynamics, invoking the infant's crib as a leveling image of universal human vulnerability.
, Experiences in Groups and Other Papers, 1959aside