Cody Peterson · Writer & researcher
Homeric language.
Archetypal psychology.
New instruments of inquiry.
I study what inherited language preserves of feeling and the formation of value—and what it asks of depth psychology today.
Recovery brought me back to books. Jung and Hillman deepened the questions. Homer brought me to an older language of feeling, endurance, and the soul.
Today, I design AI-assisted research programmes to follow these questions across texts and traditions. Seba and Logoi grow out of the same commitment: making the sources easier to reach, and the arguments open to examination.
In Odyssey 20.17–23, Odysseus addresses his heart and recalls what it has already endured. My research asks how grammar distributes feeling and agency—and what later translations and psychological readings do with those relations.
The larger question is what this language can contribute to archetypal psychology’s understanding of feeling and value.
Read the questions & methodA research practice, a workbench in development,
and a place to find the people behind the tradition.
Seba began with a practical question: how do you find a Jungian analyst? I built a directory, then a wider platform for exploring depth-psychology literature, ideas, and AI-assisted reflection.
Operated on a not-for-profit basis. The directory, research resources, and Sebastian’s AI conversations serve different purposes.
Explore SebaA philological workbench in development for reading texts, searching corpora, studying words, comparing versions, and examining usage—with the edition and passage kept close to the interpretation.
Growing out of my Homeric research. Still taking shape.
Coming soon
I use AI in source discovery, software, research organization, and testing interpretations. Generated output is provisional working material. The evidence comes from the sources; the judgments and arguments are my responsibility.
Read my approach to AI & evidence
Chiron Publications · 2024
The Archetype of the Alcoholic and the Journey to Enlightenment
Jung, Bill Wilson, and the Twelve Steps: an inquiry into the thirst for wholeness, written from within recovery.
About the book & signed copiesIn press
Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche
A Homeric response to Jung’s Answer to Job, following the relation between endurance, feeling, and the images through which we understand the soul.
Published · 2025
Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche, 19(2), 235–239
Active imagination, dreams, and the anima: a personal inquiry into the archetype of the Alcoholic and the alchemical images of recovery.
“It rests on the solid foundations of careful scholarship and personal experience.”
Murray Stein · on The Shadow of a Figure of Light
I got sober on a curb in Las Vegas on March 4, 2013. The writing, the research, the businesses, and the return to school all belong to the life that followed.
I study psychology at the University of Utah and have been accepted to a master’s programme at Adams State University, beginning January 2027. Between the old texts and the things I build, I find my way back to the canyons of southern Utah.
Read the full storyFor research correspondence, seminars, and speaking invitations.
cody@seba.healthDepth psychology, recovery, and the ancient roots of feeling. Occasional letters. No spam.