The Seba library treats Nun in 6 passages, across 6 authors (including Jung, Carl Gustav, López-Pedraza, Rafael, Liz Greene, Howard Sasportas).
In the library
6 passages
he read in the biography of Anna Catherina Emmerich, the hysterical German nun (1774-1824) who received the stigmata, the following account of her heart-trouble... it was to atone for the decay of the spirit of the Order, and especially for the sins of her fellow sisters.
Jung reads the stigmatized nun's somatic suffering as a transpersonal absorption of collective religious guilt, making the nun's body the site at which unconscious communal decay becomes visible.
Jung, Carl Gustav, Symbols of Transformation, 1952thesis
he is easily subdued by a tiny, dwarflike, freakish nun. It is a scene that routs any attempt to rationalize it... the freakish little nun, who can subdue a madman simply by her presence, is that both belong within the archetypal appearance of the freak.
López-Pedraza identifies the archaic, paradoxical healing power of the nun-figure with the hermaphroditic or 'freak' archetype, whose efficacy lies precisely in her departure from normative femininity.
López-Pedraza, Rafael, Hermes and His Children, 1977thesis
I also had a nun subpersonality. The nun had the wolfman on a leash. Howard: So there are two sides of you, the nun and the wolfman. And she keeps him on a lead. They have an interesting relationship!
Greene deploys the nun as a subpersonality that structurally contains the instinctual shadow (the wolfman), dramatizing the psychic function of religious constraint in relation to raw drive.
Liz Greene, Howard Sasportas, The Development of Personality: Seminars in Psychological Astrology, Volume 1, 1987thesis
This sentence resembles the famous story of the nun who receives a young man in the visitors' room. The abbess watches through the keyhole and sees the nun kissing the young man farewell.
Jung uses the riddle of the nun's kiss — apparently transgressive yet innocently logical — to illustrate how unconscious reversal operates, the surface violation concealing an entirely different underlying structure.
Jung, C.G., Dream Interpretation Ancient and Modern: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1941, 2014supporting
The index of Evagrian ascetic psychology lists historical Egyptian nuns — Syncletica and Theodora — as authoritative voices in early Christian depth-psychological tradition, placing female monastics within the lineage of contemplative self-knowledge.
Sinkewicz, Robert E., Evagrius of Pontus: The Greek Ascetic Corpus, 2003supporting
we spoke to a nun who remembered Denise and showed us pictures of her dormitory room, with ten cots arranged neatly on each side
A passing autobiographical reference in which a nun serves as a keeper of wartime memory, carrying no explicit depth-psychological argument but touching the nun's function as guardian of hidden personal history.
Kandel, Eric R., In search of memory the emergence of a new science of mind, 2006aside