The Seba library treats Three Orders in 7 passages, across 7 authors (including Samuels, Andrew, Edinger, Edward F., Welwood, John).
Lacan divides the phenomena with which psychoanalysis deals into three 'orders': (1) the Symbolic, which structures the unconscious by a fundamental and universal set of laws; (2) the Imaginary... (3) the Real
Samuels presents Lacan's tripartition of the Symbolic, Imaginary, and Real as the definitive structural framework of psychoanalysis, then argues for its compatibility with Jungian archetypal and personal-unconscious theory.
, Jung and the Post-Jungians, 1985thesis
the various orders of created objects that had been confounded together should be distinguished by a separating process performed by Jesus.... Jesus, therefore, became the first-fruits of the distinction of the various orders
Edinger draws on the Gnostic doctrine of Basilides — used by Jung as the epigraph to Aion — to argue that the psychological meaning of Christ's Passion is the separatio, the differentiation of cosmically confused orders.
, Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy, 1985thesis
These three levels of mind, then, lead to three orders of truth. Thinking mind... produces conceptual, logical, and scientific truths... grounded, experiential truths... living, contemplative truth, which reveals a deeper order of being
Welwood maps three orders of truth onto three levels of mind, aligning this psychological tripartition with the Buddhist trikaya doctrine as parallel frameworks for understanding reality's stratification.
, Toward a Psychology of Awakening Buddhism, Psychotherapy,, 2000thesis
the trumps seem to be a system in which the ladder of emanation is represented as existing on more than one layer, each layer in the trumps being represented by one of three groups of seven cards
Place interprets the Tarot's tripartite structure of trumps through Plato's three parts of the soul and Neoplatonic emanation theory, presenting the three orders as a cosmological and psychological schema encoded in symbolic form.
, The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination, 2005supporting
spirit, and soul, and body are one, and omnia sunt ex uno... all perfection consisteth in the number three
Von Franz's alchemical commentary establishes the triad of spirit, soul, and body as the foundational three orders within which the alchemical opus achieves its perfection.
, Aurora Consurgens: A Document Attributed to Thomas Aquinas on the Problem of Opposites in Alchemy, 1966supporting
In accordance with the difference of men's natures, one of these three principles is in the ascendant, and they have their several pleasures corresponding to them.
Plato's tripartition of reason, spirit, and appetite constitutes a foundational philosophical source for the concept of three orders structuring both the soul and the state.
, Republic, -380supporting
The impulse to art — the impulse to echo, through accord, an apprehended order of beauty — underlies the grandiose formation of the archaic orders of society
Campbell gestures toward structured social orders as the collective expression of aesthetic and psychological impulses, linking mythological patterning to societal tripartition.
, Primitive Mythology (The Masks of God, Volume I), 1959aside