The Seba library treats Nephthys in 8 passages, across 6 authors (including von Franz, Marie-Louise, Jung, C.G., Neumann, Erich).
The linen wrappings of the body are concretely the goddesses Isis and Nephthys, who embrace the dead pe[rson]
Von Franz argues that in Egyptian mortuary theology the mummy-bands were not symbolic but literally identical with Isis and Nephthys, making Nephthys a material agent of deification rather than merely a mythological attendant.
, Psyche and Matter, 2014thesis
which archetype is it that is re-awakened? It is the myth of Osiris, Isis, and Nephthys.
Jung identifies the Osiris-Isis-Nephthys myth as the reactivated archetypal pattern underlying the analytical material under discussion, using Nephthys as a constitutive member of this triadic constellation.
, Analytical Psychology: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1925, 1989thesis
In the myth, Isis, Nephthys, Set, and Osiris for[m the quaternary]
Neumann treats the Osiris myth’s four divine principals—Isis, Nephthys, Set, and Osiris—as a quaternary structure tracing the transition from matriarchate to patriarchate within the evolution of consciousness.
, The Origins and History of Consciousness (Princeton, 2019thesis
An effigy from the island of Philae represents Osiris in the form of a crucified god, mourned by Isis and Nephthys, his sister wives.
Jung adduces the Philae image of Osiris mourned by Isis and Nephthys as comparative evidence for the cross as a symbol of death and transformation predating Christianity.
, Symbols of Transformation, 1952supporting
The resurrection of Osiris, attended by Nephthys and Isis.
Von Franz presents Nephthys as co-attendant with Isis at the resurrection of Osiris, situating this dyadic feminine presence as the precondition for the alchemical transformation symbolism she traces through Hellenistic Egypt.
, Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology, 1980supporting
He ascends on the hips of Isis; he climbs up on the hips of Nephthys. His father, Atum, lays hold of the arm of the deceased.
Campbell cites the Pyramid Texts directly to show Nephthys as a bodily vehicle of ascension for the soul of the deceased, functioning as a structural counterpart to Isis in the eschatological ladder-symbolism.
, The Mythic Image, 1974supporting
Nephthys, 234, 264
An index entry in Jung’s Symbols of Transformation confirming that Nephthys appears at two specific loci in the text, indicating her presence in discussions of transformation and mother symbolism.
, Symbols of Transformation, 1952aside
Isis Nephthys 110
Harrison’s index entry pairs Isis and Nephthys as a single compound reference, reflecting the scholarly convention of treating them as an indissoluble dyad in the context of Greek-Egyptian religious comparison.
, Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion, 1912aside