The Seba library treats Dowry in 6 passages, across 5 authors (including Jung, C.G., Bion, W.R., Benveniste, Émile).
if he loves her because of her dowry, because of what she could make available to him, he will actually eliminate eros and transform it backhandedly into power.
Jung identifies the dowry as a symbol of instrumental motivation that, when projected onto the anima, corrupts eros into a drive for power.
, Dream Interpretation Ancient and Modern: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1941, 2014thesis
In baP it would appear to lie in its ability to facilitate, by bride-purchase or dowry, the acquisition of a mate.
Bion positions the dowry within the basic assumption of pairing, arguing that in this group state money derives its value from its capacity to secure a mate.
, Experiences in Groups and Other Papers, 1959thesis
It is surely quite nice that his son married a woman with a dowry, but quite probably not as welcome for the father.
Jung reads Cardanus’s ambivalence toward his son’s dowried marriage as evidence that the father’s concern is more about power and money than about love.
, Dream Interpretation Ancient and Modern: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1941, 2014supporting
the rich marry the daughters of the poor citizens, who have no dowry… Quo illae nubent divites dotatae?; the opposition between uxorem ducere and nubere is intentional.
Benveniste demonstrates that Latin marriage vocabulary encodes the dowried/undowried distinction as a fundamental axis of social asymmetry between men and women.
, Indo European Language and Society, 1973supporting
Saskia Uylenburgh, an intelligent and literate Jung woman who, though an orphan, brought a dowry of forty thousand guilders, a handsome fortune at the time.
Stein uses Rembrandt’s marriage to Saskia as a concrete historical instance of the dowry enabling the material conditions for artistic and social transformation.
, Transformation Emergence of the Self (Volume 7) (Carolyn, 1998supporting
gives the Cypria to Stasinus as a dowry, 497, 503, 507, 515 n., 529, 531
An index reference records the mythological tradition in which Homer gives the Cypria as a dowry, attesting to the term’s archaic literary currency as a form of valued gift-transfer.
, Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, -700aside