The Seba library treats Turning Point in 8 passages, across 6 authors (including Armstrong, Karen, von Franz, Marie-Louise, Pargament, Kenneth I).
This almost Proustian recollection was, according to the texts, a turning point for Gotama. He resolved from then on to work with human nature and not fight against it
Armstrong identifies the turning point as the moment of recollective insight that reorients Gotama from self-destruction toward the Middle Way, making it the structural hinge of the entire enlightenment narrative.
, Buddha, 2000thesis
Since Jung wrote this in 1944, this turning point has manifested itself worldwide. Everywhere we find traces that point to a turning of man toward the inner reality of the psyche
Von Franz extends Jung’s diagnosis of a civilizational turning point, reading the collective movement toward inner reality as a world-historical event already visibly unfolding against the tide of rationalism and materialism.
, Psyche and Matter, 2014thesis
The final decision to leave the convent often followed a critical moment, a symbolic turning point in which the relative advantages of disengagement became clear and compelling.
Pargament identifies the symbolic turning point as the precipitating structure of religious disengagement — not the cause of change but the moment at which an already maturing transformation crystallizes into irreversible decision.
, The psychology of religion and coping theory, research,, 2001thesis
Falling away and turning back In accordance with the Tao of waxing and waning. In seven days comes the return. It is the Tao of Heaven.
The I Ching hexagram Fu frames turning back as a cosmological inevitability embedded in the cyclical structure of Heaven and Earth, grounding the concept of turning point in natural law rather than individual agency.
, The Complete I Ching: The Definitive Translation, 1998supporting
The yang energy has just started to turn back — it is difficult to make a prediction. On the other hand, when one acts in accord with the right way, one should ignore
Huang’s commentary on Fu emphasizes the liminal, indeterminate quality of the turning point itself — the moment when reversal has begun but outcome remains genuinely open.
, The Complete I Ching: The Definitive Translation, 1998supporting
Now, after the Wheel’s turning, the remaining Trumps will picture the ensuing stages: evolution and regeneration.
Nichols maps the Wheel of Fortune as a structural turning point dividing the Tarot’s archetypal journey into two phases — the ego’s outward conquest followed by the inward turn toward spiritual development.
, Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey, 1980supporting
the turning-point from the age of the rococo to the era of the ‘untutored genius’
Snell invokes the turning point as a cultural-historical marker separating aesthetic epochs, using it descriptively rather than psychologically to signal a shift in the nature of creative genius.
, The discovery of the mind; the Greek origins of European, 1953aside
Against the rise of rationalism, some romantic philosophers — Schubert, von Hartmann — still tried to assert the existence of a night aspect of the soul.
Von Franz situates the pre-turning-point condition — the reign of rationalism and suppression of the soul’s nocturnal dimension — as the necessary context against which the civilizational turning point she describes in the adjacent passage becomes intelligible.
, Psyche and Matter, 2014aside