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Threshold

The place between; liminality itself.

UniversalJungianRitual

The threshold is liminality made architectural. Anthropologist Arnold van Gennep’s work on rites of passage named threshold (limen) as the central moment of any transformation: between what was and what will be. Jungian analysis reads threshold-dreams as the psyche announcing a transition is underway — not completed, not abandoned, but actually in motion. Notice whether you pause at the threshold, step through, or cannot cross. The pause is its own teaching.

Themes
liminality transition passage
Related symbols
Door Bridge
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