The single letter 'S' appears in the depth-psychology corpus not as a unified theoretical concept but as a bibliographic and indexical marker — a section-heading letter organizing concordances, glossaries, and indices across the major works of the tradition. Across Jung, Eliade, Campbell, Heidegger, Zimmer, and others, the passages grouped under 'S' constitute dense cross-referential terrain: alchemical terms (Sol, solutio, scintillae), psychological constructs (Self, shadow, schizophrenia, suggestion), Sanskrit and Pali technical vocabulary (samsara, samadhi, shunyata, skandha), mythological figures (Shiva, Saturn, Solomon), and ontological categories from Heidegger's existential analytic (Selbst, Sorge, situation). What the concordance entry for 'S' reveals, paradoxically, is the breadth of the library's comparative ambition: the same alphabetic section harbors alchemical Sol and Buddhist satori, Jungian Self and Heideggerian Sein. This co-presence is not accidental — it reflects the depth-psychological project's synthetic drive, its insistence on mapping psychic life across cultures, languages, and historical epochs. The 'S' entries thus serve as a cross-section of the library's methodological range, from Beekes's etymological precision to Jung's symbolic amplification to Eliade's phenomenology of the sacred.
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samsara (P,S) the world as experienced by the deluded mind; delusion itself; going round in circles. samskara (S) confection; mental formation.
This passage functions as a technical glossary of 'S'-initial Buddhist and Sanskrit terms central to the depth-psychological engagement with Eastern philosophy, defining concepts such as samsara, samskara, shunyata, and skandha that recur across comparative depth-psychological literature.
Brazier, David, Zen Therapy: Transcending the Sorrows of the Human Mind, 1995thesis
self: appearance of, 380 archetype of, 406f ____, Ufo as, 327 archetype of order, 424 better, 447 breaking up of unity of, 334 as combination of opposites, 337 and ego, 149, 463 as mediating symbol, 410
This index entry maps Jung's multidimensional treatment of the Self under 'S,' presenting it simultaneously as archetype of order, combination of opposites, mediating symbol, and psychic wholeness — the conceptual core of Jungian analytical psychology.
Jung, Carl Gustav, Civilization in Transition, 1964thesis
Sol, 136n, 150, fig. B4, 303, 310; cohabitation with Luna, 123; as gold, 122; lightning of, 152; Novus, Christ the, 242; and Saturn, separation of, 153
This passage indexes Sol under 'S' within Jung's alchemical hermeneutics, tracing its symbolic equivalences to gold, Christ, and its oppositional pairing with Saturn as an expression of psychic differentiation.
Jung, C. G., Collected Works Volume 3: The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease, 1907thesis
wholeness/self symbolized by, 115, 117n, 191; see also rotundum; sphere royal marriage, 413; see also chymical wedding
In Jung's alchemical concordance, 'S'-adjacent terms such as sphere and the self share the symbolic grammar of rotundum, linking the round motif to psychic wholeness and the coniunctio.
Jung, Carl Gustav, Psychology and Alchemy, 1944supporting
privatio boni/privation of good, 41, 45n, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 58, 61, 62n, 110, 269; see also evil
The Aion index locates the privatio boni doctrine among the 'S'-adjacent philosophical entries, situating Jung's engagement with the problem of evil within the Platonic and Gnostic heritage central to the phenomenology of the Self.
Jung, Carl Gustav, Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self, 1951supporting
solomonar, 225n Solomon Islands, 364, 475, 478n soma sacrifice, 413f songs: and descent to underworld, 201ff, 358; of Eskimo shamans, 96
Eliade's shamanism index clusters 'S'-initial entries around ritual sacrifice, underworld descent, and sacred song, illustrating the structural connections between shamanic practice and the depth-psychological concept of the transcendent journey.
Eliade, Mircea, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, 1951supporting
Eliade's index places samadhi and Saman in proximity, cross-referencing Indic contemplative states with shamanic altered consciousness under the letter 'S,' underscoring the comparative religious framework operative in depth-psychological scholarship.
Eliade, Mircea, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, 1951supporting
suggestion, 605; definition of, 377; under hypnosis, 699; and masses, 610; method, 295; therapy, 340, 603
The index to Jung's Symbolic Life places suggestion under 'S' as a clinical and collective-psychological mechanism, connecting hypnotic suggestibility to mass psychology and therapeutic method.
Jung, C.G., Collected Works Volume 18: The Symbolic Life, 1976supporting
coming-back to one's ownmost Self, which has been thrown into its individualization. This ecstasis makes it possible for Dasein to be able to take over resolutely that entity which it already is.
Heidegger articulates the Self (Selbst) under existential temporality as the site of authentic resolution, where thrownness and anticipatory projection converge in the ecstatic structure of care — a concept that resonates with depth-psychological accounts of individuation.
resoluteness lies the existentiell constancy which, by its very essence, has already anticipated every possible moment of vision that may arise from it.
Heidegger's account of resoluteness establishes the Self's temporal constancy as anticipatory, a structural parallel to Jung's concept of individuation as forward-directed self-realization.
In conscience Dasein calls itself. This understanding of the caller may be more or less awake in the factical hearing of the call.
Heidegger's analysis of conscience identifies the Self as both caller and called, an internal doubling that bears comparison to Jungian notions of the Self as a psychic authority exceeding the ego.
Campbell's index cross-references Soul with Spirit under 'S,' reflecting the mythological conflation of these categories across traditions that structures his comparative depth-psychological reading of inner experience.
Campbell, Joseph, The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion, 1986aside
Zimmer's Sanskrit index under 'S' provides the etymological substrate for the philosophical vocabulary — sarva (all), savi (sun-related) — that underlies the Indian metaphysical frameworks engaged by depth-psychological comparative studies.
Zimmer, Heinrich, Philosophies of India, 1951aside