The Seba library treats Hanging in 9 passages, across 6 authors (including Jung, Carl Gustav, Neumann, Erich, Nichols, Sallie).
I am weary, weary not only of hanging but of struggling after the immeasurable… I hang, or rather worse, I am hanged between sky and earth—and do not tire of the state of hanging
Jung renders ‘hanging’ as the defining condition of a soul suspended between transcendence and earthly reality, framing it as both torment and a paradoxically enduring state of being.
, The Red Book: Liber Novus, 2009thesis
the myth of his hanging from Yggdrasill reflects his relation t[o the primordially sacred water of destiny]
Neumann situates Odin’s hanging from the world-tree as a mythological archetype connecting the ordeal of suspension to the acquisition of fate-knowledge and primordial wisdom.
, The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype, 1955thesis
the sacrifice of the maiden hanging on the ‘cross.’ The death of the dancer is also to be understood in this sense, for these maidens are always doomed to die
Jung interprets a visionary maiden hanging on a stone cross as a sacrifice whose psychological necessity is to dissolve the exclusive feminine dominance that obstructs individuation.
, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, 1959thesis
from under us so that we felt suspended between worlds and could only wait and pray… Fate seizes us, it seems, and rubs our noses in all that we have formerly despised
Nichols characterizes the archetypal condition of hanging as enforced suspension between realms—a humiliation that dismantles the persona and compels encounter with the despised inferior dimensions of the psyche.
, Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey, 1980supporting
there is difficulty at hanging-in or hanging-on to the ‘matter at hand’ so that it can be resolved. Knots are sliced open with a brilliant stroke, rather than carefully sorted out strand by strand.
Hillman employs ‘hanging-in’ metaphorically to describe the puer’s structural incapacity for sustained engagement, contrasting it with the disciplined patience required by genuine psychological work.
, Senex & Puer, 2015supporting
Walton ripped his jacket into shreds, made a noose, tied it to the bars, and hanged himself.
Hari documents a literal suicidal hanging precipitated by withdrawal, moral condemnation, and social abandonment, grounding the symbolism of hanging in the lived consequences of addiction policy.
, Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction, 2015supporting
He made a noose out of his shoelaces. He double-tied them so they would slip down nicely but not slip out. He tied them to the top of the bar. He jumped.
Hari records an attempted suicidal hanging by a young incarcerated addict, illustrating the death-drive as the outer limit of unresolved psychic and social suffering.
, Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction, 2015supporting
1 (suicide, by hanging) 1 (suicide, by hanging)
A clinical pharmacotherapy review records suicide by hanging as a documented mortality event in both placebo and treatment arms of acamprosate trials, situating hanging as a terminal outcome within addiction medicine data.
, Pharmacotherapy for Adults With Alcohol Use Disorder in Outpatient Settings: Systematic Review, 2023aside
they might hang him today, or they’re going to cut him to pieces and burn him alive. You never know what they’re going to do.
Hari invokes hanging as one interchangeable method of cartel killing, underscoring its role as an instrument of terror and domination in the sociology of organized violence.
, Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction, 2015aside