The Seba library treats Nuclear Element in 7 passages, across 5 authors (including Jung, Carl Gustav, Jung, C. G. and Pauli, Wolfgang, Stein, Murray).
the nuclear element automatically creates a complex to the degree that it is affectively toned and possesses energic value… The nuclear element has a constellating power corresponding to its energic value.
Jung’s foundational statement that the nuclear element, by virtue of its affective charge and energic intensity, actively generates and organizes the complex through a selective constellating process.
, The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, 1960thesis
the constellating power of the nuclear element corresponds to its value intensity, i.e., to its energy… the relative number of constellations effected by the nuclear element
Jung specifies three measurable indices — frequency of constellations, intensity of disturbance reactions, and affect intensity — by which the energic value of the nuclear element may be empirically estimated.
, The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche, 1955thesis
Being ‘in complex’ is itself a state of dissociation. Ego-consciousness becomes disturbed and, depending upon the extent of the disturbance, can be thrown into a state of considerable disorientation and confusion.
Stein elaborates the lived consequences of complex activation, contextualizing the nuclear element’s disruptive power within the phenomenology of dissociation and ego disturbance.
, Jung’s Map of the Soul: An Introduction, 1998supporting
The temple is suggested by the upper nuclear trigram K’ean, mountain, house.
In the I Ching commentary tradition, ‘nuclear trigram’ designates the interior structural element of a hexagram, offering a structurally analogous but formally distinct usage of the nuclear-element concept.
, The I Ching or Book of Changes, 1950aside
The temple is suggested by the upper nuclear trigram K’ean, mountain, house.
Parallel I Ching passage affirming the nuclear trigram as an organizing interior principle within hexagram structure.
, The I Ching or Book of Changes, 1950aside
the nuclear trigrams Sun, the Gentle, and K’ean, Keeping Still, likewise point to this idea… Transportation of heavy loads is suggested by the lower nuclear trigram K’ean, mountain
The I Ching employs nuclear trigrams as hidden interior elements that supply latent meaning and structural tendency to the outer form of a hexagram.
, The I Ching or Book of Changes, 1950aside
the nuclear trigrams Sun, the Gentle, and K’ean, Keeping Still, likewise point to this idea
Confirms the I Ching’s use of nuclear trigrams as structurally interior and meaning-generating elements within the hexagram system.
, The I Ching or Book of Changes, 1950aside