The Seba library treats Saurian in 5 passages, across 2 authors (including Jung, C.G., Jung, C. G. and Kerényi, C.).
Here is the saurian—this is serious! At all events, the decision he obviously has made means that it will be a situation touching his instincts, the very foundations of his being.
Jung uses 'saurian' as an interpretive exclamation to signal that the dreamer's situation has penetrated to the archaic-instinctual level, making the reptilian image a direct measure of psychic depth and existential gravity.
, Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928-1930, 1984thesis
the Kore and mother figures slither down altogether to the animal kingdom, the favourite representatives of which are then the cat or the snake or the bear, or else some black monster of the underworld like the crocodile or other salamander-like, saurian creatures.
Jung and Kerényi identify saurian creatures as the terminal, underworld-facing animal forms into which the Kore archetype descends, placing them at the extreme chthonic pole of feminine archetypal imagery.
, Essays on a Science of Mythology: The Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis, 1949thesis
There was a crocodile cult. So this is a sacred saurian. Mrs. Fierz: Before he gets to the kettle mustn't he find his totem animal as the incarnation of ancestral spirits?
Jung identifies the Egyptian crocodile as a 'sacred saurian,' explicitly linking the reptilian figure to ancestral numinosity and totem-animal spirituality, elevating it beyond mere instinct to religious archetype.
, Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928-1930, 1984thesis
Do you remember that dream of the hut where this man found the crocodile, the saurian? That was a similar situation. The hut was a kind of house, meaning a definite situation.
Jung cross-references the saurian retrospectively as interpretive shorthand for the encounter with archaic instinct that accompanies the demand to 'settle down' and face one's psychological situation.
, Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928-1930, 1984supporting
cold-blooded, 644-46; functions and, 591-92; in a mandala, 115, 584; in dream (4), 105-106; in dreams, 547; man and, 37, 535, 562, 615-16; moon and, 377, 396, 397-98
The index of the Dream Analysis volume clusters 'cold-blooded' animals with functions, mandalas, and the moon, implicitly situating saurian figures within a broader symbolic taxonomy of instinct.
, Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928-1930, 1984aside