Core term · Erich Neumann

Uroboros

The snake that eats its own tail — the round, undivided wholeness before there is any separate 'I'.

Areas of life
Developmentidentitybelonging

Why it matters

Names the state we start in, and the one we're tempted back toward whenever selfhood feels like too much work.

How to handle it

Notice where you long to merge and disappear, and what standing apart would ask of you.

Who shaped this idea

The thinker behind it

From concept to practice

Turn Uroboros into a question you can answer.

Psipas asks you one small, honest question at a time — and builds the picture from your answers.