The Seba library treats Onion in 8 passages, across 8 authors (including Organization, Adult Children of Alcoholics World Service, Dayton, Tian, Kurtz, Ernest, Ketcham, Katherine).
Grief: The Onion and Time Every adult child has unexpressed grief, which is usually represented by the symptoms of depression, lethargy, o
The ACA tradition establishes ‘The Onion and Time’ as a named, canonical framework for understanding grief as a layered, temporally unfolding structure within adult children of dysfunctional families.
, The twelve steps of adult children steps workbook, 2007thesis
Yogis describe the process of purifying the personality as ‘peeling back layers of an onion.’ This gradual peeling b
Eastern yogic philosophy, as invoked in therapeutic recovery literature, employs the onion explicitly as a figure for the sequential purification of the personality through making the unconscious conscious.
, Emotional Sobriety: From Relationship Trauma to Resilience and Lasting Fulfillment, 2007thesis
Reuter suggests three layers of attachment that need to be peeled back sequentially, like an onion. First, we need to become detached from material gain, second from self-importance, and third from the ur
In the spirituality of imperfection tradition, Mary Reuter employs the onion as a precise structural metaphor for three sequentially deeper layers of spiritual attachment that must be progressively relinquished.
, The Spirituality of Imperfection Storytelling and the, 1994thesis
an onion of fifteen layers may be taken to represent roughly the lāmate conception of our universe. The core, to which the fifteen layers cohere, is Mt. Meru.
Evans-Wentz’s commentary on the Tibetan cosmological system deploys the onion’s concentric structure as a didactic model for the lamaic universe, with Mt. Meru as the axial core.
, The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Evans-Wentz Edition), 1927supporting
I crawled into the vegetable bin, settled on a giant onion and ate it, skin and all. It must have marked me for life.
Hillman cites James Beard’s childhood encounter with a raw onion as a biographical datum illustrating the daimon’s use of haphazard, sensory occasions to inaugurate a life’s vocation.
, The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling, 1996supporting
‘a dress as delicate as dry onion skin’. But these adjectival comparisons are, as we would expect, less common in epic than they are in lyric poetry
Snell identifies the Homeric simile of ‘dry onion skin’ as an instance of adjectival, attribute-based comparison characteristic of lyric rather than epic modes of perception.
, The discovery of the mind; the Greek origins of European, 1953supporting
epithet of πράσον ‘onion’, κρόμμυον ‘garlic’… For the connection with onion, cf. MoHG Schnittlauch ‘chive’ from schneiden ‘to cut’
Beekes traces the Greek etymological connection between cutting verbs and terms for onion and garlic, illuminating the semantic field linking the onion to acts of division and separation.
, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010aside
cipola (onion), becomes cibudda. Even the U sounding article coming before the noun gives further evidence of the Sicilian psyche.
Conforti uses the Sicilian dialectal transformation of the word for onion as linguistic evidence for the psychological distinctiveness inscribed in regional speech patterns.
, Field, Form, and Fate: Patterns in Mind, Nature, and Psyche, 1999aside