The Seba library treats Rejuvenation in 9 passages, across 7 authors (including Jung, Carl Gustav, Edinger, Edward F., Ulanov, Ann Belford).
they succeeded in reviving the king and evidently brought about his rejuvenation.
Jung interprets the alchemical-Egyptian controversy over treatment of the royal corpse as a symbolic record of the successful accomplishment of psychic rejuvenation through proper separation of conscious and unconscious.
, Mysterium Coniunctionis: An Inquiry into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy, 1955thesis
a son whose task it is to rejuvenate the father.
Edinger identifies the Daniel vision’s ‘son of man’ as the archetypal carrier of divine rejuvenation, the emergent figure whose function is to renew an exhausted God-image.
, Transformation of the God-Image: An Elucidation of Jung’s Answer to Job, 1992thesis
some of his patients could experience a death-like descent into depression that was followed by a rejuvenation of healthy relationships with themselves, others, and life in general.
Ulanov documents Jung’s clinical observation that a mortificatory depressive descent functions as the psychodynamic precondition for genuine interpersonal and self-relational rejuvenation.
, The Feminine in Jungian Psychology and in Christian Theology, 1971thesis
REM as providing a period of relatively selective rejuvenation in the synaptic efficacy of the serotonin (i.e., 5-HT) system
Panksepp proposes a neurochemical hypothesis in which REM sleep performs a specific restorative function—serotonergic rejuvenation—that explains behavioral disinhibition and mood dysregulation when this process is blocked.
, Affective Neuroscience The Foundations of Human and Animal, 1998thesis
the stag knows the secret of self-renewal; he sheds his antlers, and thus should we learn to shed our pride.
Von Franz reads the stag’s antler-shedding as a fairy-tale encoding of the rejuvenation archetype, linking natural cyclical renewal to the psychological necessity of relinquishing egoic pride.
, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales, 1970supporting
the solutio has a twofold effect: it causes one form to disappear and a new regenerated form to emerge.
Edinger frames alchemical solutio as the operative mechanism of rejuvenation: dissolution of an existing psychic form is inseparable from the emergence of its regenerated successor.
, Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy, 1985supporting
society in terms of its healthiness, that is, in its growth or perpetual rejuvenation naturally out of the health of its psychiatrically healthy members.
Winnicott transposes the rejuvenation concept from the individual to the social body, arguing that collective renewal emerges organically from the aggregate of individual psychiatric health.
, Playing and Reality, 1971supporting
the mortificatio of the king or the sun will refer to the death and transformation of a collective dominant or ruling principle.
Edinger positions mortificatio as the symbolic death prerequisite to rejuvenation, explicitly connecting the wounding of the solar-royal principle to the emergence of a new psychic center.
, Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy, 1985supporting
Exhausted by mental effort, I went in search of beautiful fields and meadows to recuperate, and accidentally came across a crystal-clear little fountain [spring]
Jung cites the Trevisanus allegory to illustrate how alchemical narratives encode transformative recuperation via encounter with a numinous source, a motif structurally related to rejuvenation symbolism.
, Dream Interpretation Ancient and Modern: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1941, 2014aside