The Seba library treats Tin in 4 passages, across 4 authors (including Marie-Louise von Franz, James Hillman, von Franz, Marie-Louise, Seaford, Richard).
his greatest inner experience, a revelation of the Godhead upon which all his later writings are based, came from seeing a ray of light being reflected in a tin plate.
Von Franz and Hillman use Böhme’s tin-plate vision as the paradigm case of inferior extraverted sensation triggering transcendent illumination in an introverted intuitive type.
, Lectures on Jung’s Typology, 2013thesis
his greatest inner experience, a revelation of the Godhead upon which all his later writings are based, came from seeing a ray of light being reflected in a tin plate.
Von Franz identifies the tin plate as the sensory object whose reflective surface activated Böhme’s inferior sensation and catalyzed a complete mystical vision of the Godhead.
, Psychotherapy, 1993thesis
tyrant of Syracuse called an assembly which heard him praise his new tin coinage and voted (willingly or unwillingly) to accept it.
Seaford cites tin coinage as a historical instance of fiduciary or token currency imposed by political authority, illustrating how base metal can function as money under social compulsion.
, Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy, 2004supporting
the casting of tin- pigs into the vaults at the Thesmophoria formed part of tin dramatic representation of Persephone’s descent into the lower world
Campbell alludes in passing to the ritual casting of tin pigs at the Thesmophoria as part of the dramatic enactment of Persephone’s descent, without pursuing the metal itself as a symbol.
, The Mythic Image, 1974aside