The Seba library treats Nest in 7 passages, across 5 authors (including Jung, Carl Gustav, Edinger, Edward F., Carol K. Anthony).
the anima symbolizes an unreal dream of love, happiness, and maternal warmth (her nest)—a dream that lures men away fro
Jung reads the Siberian anima’s invocation of ‘my nest’ as the archetypal lure of the femme fatale, encoding destructive maternal illusion in the nest image.
, Man and His Symbols, 1964thesis
The nest symbol emphasizes the maternal, protective, containing aspect of returning to the metaphysical source, and would surely be reassuring to the ego anxious about
Edinger interprets a dream-nest that shrinks as it is circumambulated as a symbol of the ego’s dissolution into a maternal-metaphysical womb prior to death.
, Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche, 1972thesis
the phoenix built a nest of twigs on the altar of a temple; there it is consumed in fire, and out of the dead phoenix crawls a worm from which the new phoenix grows
Edinger connects the phoenix myth’s nest-as-cremation-site to Job’s ‘I shall die in my nest,’ framing the nest as the transformative vessel of death and rebirth.
, The Mysterium Lectures: A Journey Through C.G. Jung’s Mysterium Coniunctionis, 1995thesis
the phoenix rising from the nest, or Mithras in the tree-top… In medieval hymns Mary too is praised as the cup of the flower in which Christ, coming down as a bird, makes his nest.
Jung situates the nest within a series of matrix symbols—lotus, flower-cup, phoenix-altar—as the germinating place of divine incarnation.
, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, 1959thesis
the ‘nest’ refers to the degree of protection we have acquired through following the good… Should we become careless… we would lose this… our ‘nest’ (inner world home) ‘burns up.’
Anthony glosses the I Ching’s burning nest as the inner sanctuary of integrity, earned through faithfulness and lost through capitulation to desire.
, A Guide to the I Ching, 1988supporting
we have no idea if a blackbird building her nest has a creative fantasy about nest structure… we can say nothing about their inner processes
Von Franz uses the nest-building blackbird as a test-case for the epistemological limits of depth psychology when applied to animal interiority.
, Psyche and Matter, 2014supporting
he darts from his singing post and flies to her. If she is one of his own kind, he sings and shakes his wings at her, makes them qui
Panksepp’s account of display nests in Darwin’s finches offers a naturalistic parallel to the nest’s role in courtship and instinctual emotional behavior.
, Affective Neuroscience The Foundations of Human and Animal, 1998aside