The Seba library treats Whore in 5 passages, across 3 authors (including Jung, C. G. and Kerényi, C., Hillman, James, Jung, Carl Gustav).
now a good fairy, now a witch; now a saint, now a whore. Besides this ambivalence, the anima also has 'occult' connexions with 'mysteries,' with the world of darkness
Jung and Kerényi define the anima's irreducible bipolarity by the saint/whore polarity, identifying the whore as one essential extreme of the archetype's oscillating nature.
, Essays on a Science of Mythology: The Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis, 1949thesis
The whore in a dream is a whore, who can take on deeper psychological significance (cf. the 'great whore' [meretrix] in alchemy) as an archetypal image in her own right and need not be the anima
Hillman challenges the automatic reduction of the dream-whore to anima, arguing she is an autonomous archetypal figure with roots in the alchemical meretrix tradition.
, Anima: An Anatomy of a Personified Notion, 1985thesis
Come hither; I will show unto thee the judgement of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication
Jung cites the Revelation passage on Babylon the Great as a central mythological instance of the whore archetype, linking political-spiritual corruption with the devouring feminine.
, Symbols of Transformation, 1952thesis
Venus or the whore corresponds to the erotic aspect of the lion, who in turn is an attribute of the king. As in the Apocalypse the seven-headed dragon is the riding-animal of the Great Whore
Jung integrates the alchemical Venus and the apocalyptic Great Whore as cognate symbols of the erotic, instinctual pole within the coniunctio, linked to Mercurius duplex.
, Mysterium Coniunctionis: An Inquiry into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy, 1955thesis
Sometimes a whore appears in dreams and shows a man that he is in too-easy commerce with any passing spirit. His emotions do not react genuinely, but can be picked up for an hour
Hillman offers a clinical reading: the whore-figure in a man's dream diagnoses his psychological promiscuity — an undiscriminating openness to any passing psychic content.
, Insearch: Psychology and Religion, 1967supporting