The Seba library treats Dinosaur in 8 passages, across 6 authors (including Giegerich, Wolfgang, Coniaris, Anthony M., Jung, C. G.).
the psychologist is inevitably in this day and age a dinosaur, as much as the Midgard Serpent that he is so interested in, had in all likelihood been.
Giegerich argues that the depth psychologist who remains preoccupied with archaic mythic contents is himself an anachronism, structurally parallel to the extinct creatures he studies.
, The Soul’s Logical Life Towards a Rigorous Notion of, 2020thesis
unless he changes within, he may well suffer the fate of the dinosaur.
Coniaris deploys the dinosaur as a moral-eschatological warning: failure to achieve inner transformation in proportion to external technological power risks collective extinction.
, Philokalia: The Bible of Orthodox Spirituality, 1998thesis
the male questers as they experience their epiphanies in the dinosaur canyon. So, while gender issues remain central, it is impossible to classify prehistory as either male or female.
The dinosaur canyon functions as a site of prehistoric regression and masculine epiphany in Kroetsch’s fiction, complicating the gendering of archaic origins within the seminar’s literary analysis.
, Visions: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1930-1934, 1997supporting
The third root race, thriving in Lemuria, coexisted with dinosaurs, presenting a vivid picture painted by theosophist W. Scott Elliott.
Within a theosophical cosmogony cited by Harding, dinosaurs mark the temporal horizon of Lemuria, anchoring the mythic deep past of early human root races.
, Woman’s Mysteries, Ancient and Modern, 1955supporting
I tried to convince her that those who know about geography would say that her idea of a flat earth was a dinosaur.
Easwaran uses ‘dinosaur’ colloquially to denote an outdated belief rendered obsolete by intellectual knowledge, illustrating the impermanence of prakriti-bound understanding.
, The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living: A Verse-by-Verse Commentary, 1975supporting
a figure of 50% extinction would be closely comparable with the mass extinction of 65 million years ago, during which dinosaurs finally disappeared together with 60 to 80% of the rest of the world’s species.
Easwaran invokes the dinosaur extinction event to frame the ecological crisis of mass deforestation as potentially comparable in scale to the great Cretaceous catastrophe.
, The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living: A Verse-by-Verse Commentary, 1975supporting
The infants first viewed pictures of different dinosaurs. As each image was shown, infants heard an experimenter speak a made-up word, ‘toma.’
Barrett employs dinosaur images as experimental stimuli in a cognitive study of infant concept formation, with no symbolic or depth-psychological valence.
, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, 2017aside
Picture a realm adorned with lush jungles extending as far as the eye can see, where dinosaurs graze on towering treetops, and early mammals stealthily navigate the dark ground below.
Harding’s text evokes the ancient subcontinent Mauritia through a descriptive image of dinosaurs and early mammals, serving paleogeographic atmosphere rather than psychological argument.
, Woman’s Mysteries, Ancient and Modern, 1955aside