The Seba library treats Set in 6 passages, across 3 authors (including Jung, Carl Gustav, Neumann, Erich, Shapiro, Francine).
Barbels were sacred to Typhon, who is ‘that part of the soul which is passionate, impulsive, irrational, and truculent.’ The same ambivalence can be seen in the figure of Typhon/Set. In later times he was a god of death, destr
Jung identifies Typhon/Set as the mythological embodiment of the soul’s irrational, destructive dimension, while insisting on the figure’s essential ambivalence as both abominated and venerated.
, Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self, 1951thesis
It is no accident that the cult assigned a special role to a certain queen whose image was set up in the temple and bore the name ‘Arsinoë Philadelphos, beloved of the goat.’
Neumann situates the Egyptian cultic world surrounding Osiris—the deity dismembered by Set—within a matriarchal sphere of fertility religion, contextualizing Set’s violence within a broader mythological drama.
, The Origins and History of Consciousness (Princeton, 2019supporting
after the first set, the negative cognition is generally not used again during processing… Its purpose is merely to serve as an initial focal point for entering the memory network. Immediately after the material is accessed, the clinician initiates the sets of stimulation.
Shapiro deploys ‘set’ as a technical procedural unit in EMDR—a discrete bout of bilateral stimulation that activates the adaptive information processing network targeting dysfunctionally stored trauma material.
, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures, 2001supporting
Just stay with that. (leads client in a set of eye movements) CLIENT: My father’s, too. THERAPIST: (leads client in a set of eye movements) What did you get?
Shapiro’s clinical transcript illustrates how sequential sets of eye movements serve as the iterative procedural spine of EMDR reprocessing, punctuating each moment of emerging material.
, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures, 2001supporting
The clinician should not attempt to repeat or summarize, even if the client has spoken for 5 minutes after the set… rather than asking the client ‘What do you think that means?’ the clinician should merely direct the client to pay attention to the new memory during the next set.
Shapiro establishes the clinical discipline governing conduct between and after sets, emphasizing that interpretation must not interrupt the spontaneous associative processing that each set initiates.
, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures, 2001supporting
‘Quite so, Yajnavalkya. But when the sun is set, and the moon is set, and the fire has gone out, and speech is hushed, what then is the light of man?’ ‘Self is his light,’ he answered.
Jung cites the Upanishadic dialogue to illuminate the progressive withdrawal of external light culminating in the Self as inner luminary—‘set’ functioning here in its astronomical sense to mark the eclipse of outer orientation.
, Symbols of Transformation, 1952aside