The Seba library treats Division in 9 passages, across 7 authors (including Jung, Carl Gustav, Jung, C.G., Padel, Ruth).
The primary splitting of the psyche into conscious and unconscious seems to be the cause of the division within the tribe and the settlement. It is a division founded on fact but not consciously recognized as such.
Jung argues that social bifurcations such as tribal moieties and dual kingship are projections of the foundational psychic split between consciousness and the unconscious.
, The Practice of Psychotherapy: Essays on the Psychology of the Transference and Other Subjects, 1954thesis
The antithesis can be formulated as the masculine ego versus the feminine ‘other,’ i.e., conscious versus unconscious personified as anima. The primary splitting of the psyche into conscious and unconscious seems to be the cause of the division within the tribe and the settlement.
This passage establishes that social and cultural division — including the fourfold quartering of settlements — derives from the archetypal polarity of ego and anima, conscious and unconscious.
, Collected Works Volume 16: The Practice of Psychotherapy, 1954thesis
Division is vital in sacrifice. Plato compares logical ‘division’ to division practiced in sacrifice… The word for physical division is also ‘discernment,’ assessment of the mind by the mind.
Padel demonstrates that in archaic Greek thought, physical partition, logical categorization, and psychological discernment are bound together in the single act denoted by the verb ‘to divide.’
, In and Out of the Mind Greek Images of the Tragic Self, 1994thesis
In the logic of our psychological situation, there is necessarily a distribution or a division of labor. To the degree that consciousness focuses on archetypal contents, consciousness itself becomes ego-consciousness.
Giegerich argues that contemporary psychological conditions impose a structural division of labor between archetypal content and ego-consciousness that cannot be overcome by focusing on images alone.
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Definition and division are methods fundamental to Stoic dialectic, and are especially in evidence in ethical texts… division is the analysis of a genus into its constituent species.
Long and Sedley show that for the Stoics, division is a foundational dialectical technique — the systematic decomposition of genera into species — structuring both logical and ethical inquiry.
, The Hellenistic Philosophers, 1987supporting
If we try to examine the original meaning of this division in Byzantine society, we are driven to the conclusion that the reason for its existence will not be found at this particular stage.
Dvornik traces ecclesiastical and political division in Byzantine society to deep historical roots, framing schism as the surface expression of a long-running structural antagonism.
, The Photian Schism: History and Legend, 1948supporting
The first division of Epictetus’ ethics is said to ‘concern orexis and ekklisis’… The second division of his system is that which ‘concerns hormai and aphormai and, in a word, the appropriate’.
Inwood illustrates how Stoic ethical theory is organized by a formal division of inquiry into distinct domains governing desire, avoidance, and appropriate action.
, Ethics and Human Action in Early Stoicism, 1985supporting
When we do come to the tripartite psuche of Book 4 we are already disposed to view its divisions principally in terms of different kinds of behaviour, arising from different goals.
Hobbs argues that Plato’s tripartite soul is best understood as a functional division grounded in distinct motivational orientations rather than purely anatomical or metaphysical partitions.
, Plato and the Hero: Courage, Manliness and the Impersonal Good, 2000supporting
On division of ethics, 344, 346; on appropriation to one’s own constitution, 347, 350–1, 353–4; on right actions, 367.
An index reference indicating that Seneca addresses the formal division of Stoic ethics, confirming the centrality of the concept within the school’s systematic moral philosophy.
, The Hellenistic Philosophers, 1987aside