The Seba library treats Moose in 7 passages, across 5 authors (including Signell, Karen A., Radin, Paul, Hollis, James).
a much deeper archetypal shadow hidden in the moose dream emerged: the negative side of the Great Father archetype—the end of order and protection in the universe for her.
Signell identifies the moose dream as a vessel for the negative Great Father archetype, disclosing the dreamer’s foundational wound of cosmic abandonment and violated protection.
, Wisdom of the Heart: Working with Womens Dreams, 1991thesis
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The moose appears as an explicitly titled dream in Signell’s clinical casebook, locating it within the shadow chapter of women’s dreamwork as a named, catalogued psychic event.
, Wisdom of the Heart: Working with Womens Dreams, 1991supporting
he turns into a moose to entice the eagle down. When the eagle eats of the meat, Sitconski kills him.
Radin documents the moose as the Trickster’s shape-shifting disguise, a decoy-body deployed in a predatory reversal that exemplifies mythic cunning and the permeable boundary between forms.
, The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology, 1956thesis
we realized that the rock had legs and two predators were munching on a moose. We were far from civilization and we joked that if it suddenly snowed they would also find the bodies of two Anglos in the spring thaw.
Hollis deploys the moose carcass as a lived encounter with the genuinely primal wilderness, which he implicitly contrasts with the performative masculinity of organized men’s-group ritual.
, Under Saturn’s Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men, 1994supporting
we realized that the rock had legs and two predators were munching on a moose. We were far from civilization and we joked that if it suddenly snowed they would also find the bodies of two Anglos in the spring thaw.
A parallel witness account by Hollis anchoring the moose encounter as an unmediated contact with predatory wilderness, contextualizing the men’s movement critique that follows.
, Under Saturns Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men, 1994supporting
The following was written about an outpost on Hudson Bay named ‘Moose Factory’: Many of the work accidents at Moose were alcohol-related.
Alexander invokes Moose Factory as a historical site of colonial dislocation and endemic alcoholism, illustrating the social preconditions for addictive behaviour rather than engaging the animal symbolically.
, The Globalisation of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit, 2008aside
MOOSE guidelines for meta-analyses of observational studies were followed in the study (Stroup et al., 2000).
The acronym MOOSE here designates a methodological reporting standard for observational meta-analyses, carrying no symbolic or psychological valence within the depth-psychology corpus.
, Meta-analysis of fMRI studies of timing in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), 2012aside