The Seba library treats Starfish in 7 passages, across 5 authors (including Jung, Carl Gustav, Conforti, Michael, Organization, Adult Children of Alcoholics World Service).
Pliny describes a fish—the stella marina, 'star of the sea'—which, he says, has puzz
Jung identifies the alchemical 'round fish' with radially structured marine invertebrates and cites Pliny's stella marina as the textual ancestor of the illuminating, Self-bearing organism at the heart of the alchemical recipe.
, Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self, 1951thesis
Because of its radial structure, this creature comes into the same class as the starfish and the jelly-fish.
Jung explicitly classifies the sea-urchin (echinus/echeneis) alongside the starfish and jellyfish by virtue of their shared radial structure, positioning all as morphologically cognate symbols of the Self's mandala-like wholeness.
, Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self, 1951thesis
the sudden activation of these electromagnetic frequencies activate regenerative activity in a number of species including the newt, salamander, and the starfish.
Conforti marshals Becker's experimental evidence that electromagnetic field activation triggers regeneration in the starfish, adducing it as empirical support for the psychoid field concept in depth psychology.
, Field, Form, and Fate: Patterns in Mind, Nature, and Psyche, 1999thesis
the child reaches out and places a starfish in one of your hands. You smile and feel the bristles of the tiny starfish tickling you.
In an ACA guided-imagery meditation, the starfish functions as an embodied token of the inner child's innocence, playfulness, and trust, facilitating somatic reconnection between the adult self and its wounded child aspect.
, The twelve steps of adult children steps workbook, 2007supporting
pomegranate, grape, starfish, python, raincloud, rose, emerald, oaktree, waterfall, zebra, orchid, earthquake, papaya, dolphin and giraffe.
Moore, following Ficino's doctrine of sympathies, enumerates the starfish among the natural objects assigned an archetypal planetary home, situating it within a world-soul in which every creature participates in planetary-psychological correspondences.
, The Planets Within: The Astrological Psychology of Marsilio Ficino, 1982supporting
pomegranate, grape, starfish, python, raincloud, rose, emerald, oaktree, waterfall, zebra, orchid, earthquake, papaya, dolphin and giraffe.
A parallel Ficinian catalogue reiterates the starfish's membership in the lexicon of natural objects bearing archetypal planetary correspondence, confirming the term's place within Moore's revisioned astrological psychology.
, The Planets Within: The Astrological Psychology of Marsilio Ficino, 1990supporting
I was with a starfish—the words 'Hollthurn' and 'holothurians'… when a charming l up to me and said: 'Is it a starfish? Is it alive?' 'Yes,' I replied
Freud introduces a starfish encountered during a youthful shore excursion as a screen-memory node that the dream-work exploits for linguistic condensation, illustrating the reckless opportunism with which the dream recruits innocent memories in service of censored wishes.
, The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900aside