Thicket

The Seba library treats Thicket in 6 passages, across 5 authors (including Edinger, Edward F., Wang Bi, Richard John Lynn, Beekes, Robert).

In the library 6 passages

The ram signifies unregenerate archetypal energy which must be extracted from the unconscious and sacrificed. Abraham is participating in a process of divine transformation

Edinger reads the ram caught in the thicket on Mount Moriah as a depth-psychological symbol of primitive archetypal energy awaiting sacrificial transformation, making the thicket the site where unconscious content is held until consciousness is ready to confront it.

Edinger, Edward F., The Creation of Consciousness Jung’s Myth for Modern Man, 1984thesis

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“here one hides armed troops in a thicket” and dares not reveal his arrogance. “One…ascends his high hill” refers to how he looks at things from a distance but dares not advance.

Wang Bi’s commentary treats the thicket as a strategic shelter for a psychic force (Third Yang) that lacks sufficient strength to act, rendering concealment in dense cover an image of the complex that cannot yet break into open expression.

Wang Bi, Richard John Lynn, The Classic of Changes: A New Translation of the I Ching as Interpreted by Wang Bi, 1994thesis

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opufloC; ‘bush, thicket’ (SIG 57, 28 [va]); 0puflwollC; ‘forested’, OpUflLOC; ‘who passes a forest’… Neutral collective of *opuil0<; = Skt. druma- [m.] ‘tree’, Ru. dram ‘thicket, forest’

Beekes establishes the Indo-European etymological lineage of the Greek term for thicket (drumos), rooting it in the ancient arboreal sacred vocabulary shared across Sanskrit, Russian, and Greek.

Beekes, Robert, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010supporting

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receptivity, indirection and self-exposure on the other… it is the contradictory unity of closing in on the other and being surrounded by it on all sides

Giegerich’s analysis of the Actaeon myth in the primal forest articulates the thicket-logic of hunting consciousness — the paradoxical structure in which concealment within dense nature is inseparable from the moment of revelation.

Giegerich, Wolfgang, The Soul’s Logical Life Towards a Rigorous Notion of, 2020supporting

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drawn too deeply into the forest, unable to find familiar markings or get back to a clearing, lost his bearings and froze

Hillman uses the dense forest as an image of psychic disorientation — the thicket-state in which the soul-figure (Huldra) vanishes and the individual loses the thread back to waking consciousness.

Hillman, James, The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling, 1996supporting

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