The Seba library treats Den in 8 passages, across 5 authors (including Benveniste, Émile, Woodman, Marion, Neumann, Erich).
scholars consider that this root dem- 'construct' has yielded, apart from the word for 'house,' a derived verb from this noun, signifying 'to tame,' a verb represented in Latin by domare
Benveniste establishes that the Indo-European root dem- unites house-construction with domestication, providing the etymological foundation for the depth-psychological association between enclosed space and psychic containment.
, Indo European Language and Society, 1973thesis
the Homeric form dô in hēméteron dô 'in my house, at my home,' parallel with Latin domi, domum, conveys the notion of the house as 'inside.'
Benveniste traces the Indo-European sense of 'house' as fundamentally an interiority — the inside as opposed to the outside — which undergirds depth-psychological uses of domestic space as a symbol of the psychic interior.
, Indo European Language and Society, 1973thesis
The Indo-European form is dhwer-, in the reduced grade dhur, Gr. thúra, generally in the plural, because it seems that the door was conceived of as having various elements.
Benveniste's analysis of Indo-European words for 'door' illuminates the threshold between interior and exterior — a spatial opposition that depth psychology regularly employs as a symbol of conscious and unconscious boundary.
, Indo European Language and Society, 1973supporting
daps or more commonly the plural dapes, which denotes the ritual meal offered after the sacrifice. This was a term which soon was drained of its religious sense and came to denote no more than 'meal.'
Benveniste traces semantic deflation in the root dap-, adjacent to the den- family, demonstrating how archaic sacred meanings dissolve into common usage — a process mirroring depth psychology's recovery of numinous content from ordinary terms.
, Indo European Language and Society, 1973supporting
demon lover, 103, 135-155, 161, 174, 179, 189 Denial of Death, The, 12 depression, smiling, 148
Woodman's index entry for 'Denial of Death' and adjacent 'demon lover' entries places the den- prefix within a cluster of depth-psychological themes involving negation, shadow, and the unconscious's demonic aspect.
, Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride: A Psychological Study, 1982aside
a creative relationship between the dark instinctual side of man's nature and the light side represented by the conscious mind
Neumann's argument for integrating the dark instinctual dimension with consciousness implicitly invokes the den-as-lair as the domain of instinctual life that demands psychic integration.
, Depth Psychology and a New Ethic, 1949aside
she found her way to the cave of the healer who lived outside the village
Estés employs the cave — an archetypal den — as the locus of healing wisdom situated at the boundary between civilisation and wildness, consistent with depth-psychological symbolism of the instinctual retreat.
, Women Who Run With the Wolves Myths and Stories of the Wild, 2017aside
Lat. daps '(sacrificial) meal', and perhaps with the ToA pret. and subj. tap- 'eat', ToB tapp- 'consume'
Beekes situates the dap-/den- root cluster within a sacrificial and consumptive semantic field, reinforcing the etymological proximity of domesticated space, ritual offering, and destructive devouring in the Indo-European lexicon.
, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010aside