Tornado

his unconscious, through these tornado dreams, was picturing his childhood rage to him... These uncontainable storms rampaging through this Jung man's inner countryside were tearing up his professional and personal life.

Moore reads recurrent tornado dreams as the unconscious's symbolic representation of suppressed childhood rage arising from abuse and parentification, requiring alchemical containment and transformation through therapeutic imagery work.

Moore, Robert, King Warrior Magician Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine, 1990thesis

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I have this recurrent dream of going outside and seeing a tornado ripping across the fields and coming for my house... a tornado is always in the background causing chaos and destruction.

Goodwyn presents the recurrent tornado dream as a direct index of the dreamer's chronic anxiety level, arguing that dream intensity mirrors the constitutional and circumstantial weight of the dreamer's waking psychological burden.

Goodwyn, Erik D., Understanding Dreams and Other Spontaneous Images: The Invisible Storyteller, 2018thesis

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He enters the human psyche like a whirlwind, or a tornado, and houses fly up in the air. Whenever the word king or queen is spoken, something in the body trembles a little.

Bly deploys the tornado as a mythopoeic figure for the numinous, reorganising force of the archetypal King, whose invisible power enters the psyche with the irresistible violence of a natural vortex.

Bly, Robert, Iron John: A Book About Men, 1990thesis

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A tornado is a typical vortex: it contains contrary motions, cold air pushing down on the outside and hot air spiralling up on the inside. Vortices of all kinds both arise from and perpetuate such contrary motions.

McGilchrist uses the tornado as his paradigm case for vortical dynamics in nature, arguing that such phenomena, built from contrary motions, reveal the ubiquity of process over static thing-thinking.

McGilchrist, Iain, The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World, 2021supporting

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A tornado is a typical vortex: it contains contrary motions, cold air pushing down on the outside and hot air spiralling up on the inside.

Duplicate edition passage reinforcing McGilchrist's process-ontological argument through the tornado's internal contrary dynamics as evidence against mechanistic, thing-centred accounts of natural phenomena.

McGilchrist, Iain, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World, 2021supporting

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it is surely possible to say that each, as a whole – the waterfall and the tornado – has a cause, or, at any rate, causes. But that depends on seeing the world at large as a collection of things, not processes.

McGilchrist uses the tornado alongside the waterfall to press his ontological argument that causal attribution to bounded events presupposes 'thing-thinking,' a framework he regards as philosophically inadequate to relational, processual reality.

McGilchrist, Iain, The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World, 2021supporting

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it is surely possible to say that each, as a whole – the waterfall and the tornado – has a cause, or, at any rate, causes. But that depends on seeing the world at large as a collection of things, not processes.

Duplicate edition passage sustaining McGilchrist's critique of causal 'thing-thinking' through the tornado as a processual event without clear ontological boundaries.

McGilchrist, Iain, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World, 2021supporting

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your brain can compare the simulation to actual sensory input... The cascade ends in the brain's primary visual cortex, which represents your lowest-level visual concepts in a tornado of ever-changing lines and edges.

Barrett borrows the tornado as a metaphor for the turbulent, cascading neural activity of the primary visual cortex, using its dynamic, unpredictable character to convey the restless energy of predictive processing.

Barrett, Lisa Feldman, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, 2017supporting

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Mars in the 6th may clean the house like a 'white tornado', while Neptune is still trying to remember where it left the mop.

Sasportas employs the tornado idiomatically to characterise the energetic, forceful quality of Mars in the sixth house, contrasting it humorously with Neptunian vagueness — a rhetorical flourish rather than a sustained psychological argument.

Sasportas, Howard, The Twelve Houses: An Introduction to the Houses in Astrological Interpretation, 1985aside

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