The Seba library treats Massa Confusa in 8 passages, across 5 authors (including Jung, Carl Gustav, Jung, C. G., Jung, C.G.).
The 'stone' is the prima materia, called hyle or chaos or massa confusa. This alchemical terminology was based on Plato's Timaeus.
Jung identifies massa confusa as a classical designation for the prima materia, tracing its philosophical genealogy directly to the Platonic notion of formless, receptive matter awaiting the ordering spirit.
, Psychology and Religion: West and East, 1958thesis
Alchemical term for the original chaos containing the divine seeds of life. The term prima materia is often used synonymously with that of the massa informis (or massa confusa).
Jung explicitly equates massa confusa with massa informis and prima materia, defining it as the originary chaotic state that paradoxically harbors latent divine generative potential.
, Letters Volume 2, 1951-1961, 1975thesis
Alchemical term for the original chaos containing the divine seeds of life. The term prima materia is often used synonymously with that of the massa informis (or massa confusa).
Repeating the synonymy established in later correspondence, Jung anchors massa confusa within his broader alchemical lexicon as an interchangeable name for the undifferentiated prime substrate.
, Letters Volume 1: 1906-1950, 1973thesis
Mass, 15, 17, 199 massa confusa, 208 masturbation, 131-132, 136-137 matter: and mother archetype, 64, 65-66, 212-215 and spirit, 37, 38, 64, 86, 93-94, 146-147, 212-213, 215, 230, 232, 233, 241, 249-250, 258-260
Von Franz positions massa confusa within an alchemical-psychological constellation that links it to the Mass, the mother archetype, and the fundamental tension between matter and spirit.
, Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology, 1980supporting
massa confusa 49
Giegerich invokes massa confusa as an index of the soul's pre-logical, undifferentiated condition, situating it within his dialectical account of psychological immaturity before genuine interiority is achieved.
, The Soul’s Logical Life Towards a Rigorous Notion of, 2020supporting
Mass, the (religious rite), 115, 117 Black, 191 for the Dead, 298n; parody of, 260 massa confusa, 301
The Archetypes concordance places massa confusa in proximity to the ritual Mass and its dark inversions, suggesting the term's resonance within Jung's broader sacramental-alchemical symbolic field.
, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, 1959supporting
opus alchymicum in form of, 158 massa confusa, 84, 325
The index of Collected Works Volume 3 situates massa confusa alongside the opus alchymicum and prima materia, confirming its structural role as a recurrent reference point in Jung's alchemical vocabulary.
, Collected Works Volume 3: The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease, 1907supporting
"Chaos" is one of the names for the prima materia. ... Mylius describes the prima materia as the elementum primordiale. It is the 'pure subject and the unity of forms,' and in it any form whatsoever may be assumed.
While not naming massa confusa explicitly, Jung here articulates the conceptual substrate it names: the prima materia as chaos, as pure potentiality prior to differentiated form.
, Psychology and Alchemy, 1944supporting