Table

we are still far from knowing what the ‘table’ of the dreamer signifies, although the word ‘table’ sounds unambiguous enough. For the thing we do not know is that this ‘table’ is the very one at which his father sat when he refused the dreamer all further financial help

Jung uses the dreamer’s table as the paradigm case for why dream-interpretation cannot proceed without the dreamer’s personal associations, since the object’s manifest name conceals a singular biographical trauma.

Jung, Carl Gustav, The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, 1960thesis

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The table had come from the dowry of my paternal grandmother, and was at this time about seventy years old… The table top had split from the rim to beyond the center, and not along any joint; the split ran right through the solid wood. I was thunderstruck.

Jung records the paranormal splitting of a family dining table as a formative synchronistic experience, investing the object with psychic and ancestral significance.

Jung, Carl Gustav, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1963thesis

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the dinner-table scene of the seventh dream, as well as the dinner-table scene of this dream with Miss L., can hardly be interpreted in other than a sexual sense: now we have a similarly constructed picture in immediate succession

In early dream-series analysis, Jung interprets recurrent dinner-table imagery as a displaced sexual symbol, demonstrating the table’s capacity to condense social and libidinal meanings.

Jung, C. G., Experimental Researches, 1904supporting

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In the hopes of solving many of the aforementioned ANS table problems (or, at the least, making a significant contribution in that direction), the following table represents an updated and integrated representation of the organization of the ANS.

Rothschild uses ‘table’ in its purely schematic sense as a clinical reference tool for mapping autonomic nervous system states, reflecting the corpus’s empirical-methodological pole.

Rothschild, Babette, The body remembers Volume 2, Revolutionizing trauma, 2024aside

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Many patients will not suffer the severe symptoms of withdrawal and will be able to benefit from group therapy much more quickly. Table 8.1 outlines the possible neurological complications that result from the chronic use of alcohol.

Flores deploys the table as a clinical summary device for neurological sequelae of alcoholism, illustrating the standard empirical usage of the term in addiction treatment literature.

Flores, Philip J, Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations An, 1997aside

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Tables 8.8 and 8.9 list the symptoms commonly seen in the Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. This is a two-stage illness, with Wernicke’s encephalopathy being the early acute phase

Flores employs tabular format to systematize symptom profiles in addiction-related neurological syndromes, reflecting the clinical-reference function of the term in group therapy contexts.

Flores, Philip J, Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations An, 1997aside

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