The Seba library treats Round Table in 8 passages, across 4 authors (including Jung, Carl Gustav, Sanford, John A., Edinger, Edward F.).
But the round table, like the round dance, stands for synthesis and Jungian. In the Last Supper this takes the form of participation in the body and blood of Christ
Jung explicitly equates the round table with the round dance as symbols of synthesis and sacred gathering, linking them to the ritual incorporation of the divine center in early Christian practice.
, Psychology and Religion: West and East, 1958thesis
It takes the form, for instance, of a serpent, which describes a circle round the dreamer. It appears in later dreams as a clock, a circle with a central point, a round target for shooting practice… a round table, a basin
Jung catalogues the round table as one of the recurring circular motifs in a dream series, classifying it as a spontaneous mandala symbol expressing the Self’s drive toward wholeness.
, Psychology and Religion: West and East, 1958thesis
table, 175, 177&n, 186
In the index to Psychology and Alchemy, the round table is cross-referenced under the ‘round’ motif alongside the lapis, gold, and anima mundi, confirming its systematic place in Jung’s alchemical-symbolic lexicon.
, Psychology and Alchemy, 1944supporting
table, round, 175, 177&n, 186
The concordance entry in Psychology and Alchemy anchors the round table within the alchemical index of mandala symbols, situating it beside the temenos, the rotundum, and the lapis as figures of the Self.
, Psychology and Alchemy, 1944supporting
A table unites those who sit around it. It stands as a symbol for the spiritual unity of those who belong together… the table as a symbol of the unity between the dreamer and his shadow is reinforced by its shape: it is expressly described as a circle.
Sanford interprets a circular table in a dream as a symbol of spiritual unity between the ego and the shadow, connecting the round form to the archetype of wholeness.
, Dreams: Gods Forgotten Language, 1968supporting
At a round table, two men are sitting. One is a political leftist, the other a rightist… I suggest that they ventilate at the gut level and resolve their feeling relationship.
Edinger presents a clinical dream in which a round table serves as the locus for the reconciliation of political and psychic opposites, functioning as a symbol of the coniunctio.
, Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche, 1972supporting
A table would be the place where eating takes place, and the seats would serve the people who are attending that collective eating—really a psychological communion table.
Jung interprets the table in a dream as a ‘psychological communion table,’ linking communal eating to confession, brotherhood, and the collective dimension of psychological transformation.
, Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928-1930, 1984supporting
That was our dining room, where the round walnut dining table stood. The table had come from the dowry of my paternal grandmother, and was at this time about seventy years old.
Jung recounts a paranormal event involving a round family table, which, while not analyzed symbolically here, provides autobiographical context for his lifelong attention to the round table as a charged psychological object.
, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1963aside