hips
The Seba library treats Hip in 6 passages, across 6 authors (including Edinger, Edward F., Johnson, Robert A., Beekes, Robert).
struck him in the socket of his hip, and Jacob's hip was dislocated as he wrestled with him... The sun rose as he left Peniel, limping because of his hip.
Edinger presents the hip wound in the Jacob narrative as the archetypal mark of transformative encounter with a superior power — the somatic cost of wrestling with the divine that yields both blessing and permanent bodily alteration.
, Science of the Soul: A Jungian Perspective, 2002thesis
The hip pocket I am connecting this image to several overlapping collective attitude systems... wanting to be 'hip' in the sense of being included in what certain groups of people are doing.
Johnson uses the hip pocket as a dream image that amplifies into collective attitudes of fashionable belonging and pseudo-feeling, contrasting superficial group-identification with authentic investment of psychic energy.
, Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth, 1986thesis
KAOVlC; cannot be combined with these forms... The word resembles an old IE word for 'buttock, hip', found in Skt. srolJi-, Lat. clunis, MW clun, ON hlaun, Lith. slaunis, all from IE *klouni-.
Beekes documents the deep Indo-European etymological lineage of the Greek word for hip/haunch, establishing the anatomical term's cross-linguistic antiquity and its derivative field including the hip-joint and a dagger 'worn at the hips.'
, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010supporting
An obvious nightmare or nightmare vision is portrayed in Genesis. Here it is written: That same night [Jacob] got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed t
Hillman situates the Genesis Jacob episode within a broader phenomenology of nightmare and divine assault, contextualizing the hip-wounding as belonging to the mythological register of daemonic nocturnal encounter.
, Pan and the Nightmare, 1972supporting
he with his palm on the hip of his wife, and she with her palm on the hip of the husband, The sisters sleep lovingly side by side in their bed
Whitman's image, quoted by Bloom, employs the hip as a site of intimate bodily contact in sleep, functioning within a catalogue of universal human states as a marker of conjugal tenderness.
, The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime, 2015aside
Resistance may take the form of the virgin Hippolytus, for whom virginity means exclusivity — the exclusive worship of one divinity.
Berry invokes Hippolytus — whose name contains the 'hip-' root — as an archetypal figure of virginal exclusivity and refusal of Aphroditic entanglement, tangentially related to the hip's symbolic field.
, Echo's Subtle Body: Contributions to an Archetypal Psychology, 1982aside