Literary notes about Nucleus (AI summary)
The term "nucleus" in literature frequently serves as a metaphor for the core or essential element around which ideas, organizations, or physical forms are structured. In philosophical and psychoanalytic contexts, writers use it to indicate the underlying driving force—such as instinct being "the nucleus of reason" [1] or the Oedipus-complex aptly described as the nucleus of neurosis [2]—highlighting a central, formative idea. In narratives and historical descriptions, "nucleus" is employed to depict the central unit from which growth radiates, as seen in the establishment of settlements [3, 4, 5] or the grouping of key figures that propel societal change [6]. The usage even extends to the physical realm, where it denotes the central, defining part of a biological cell [7, 8, 9], and to more poetic expressions like the radiant "nucleus" of light [10]. This diversity of use—from abstract concepts of love being the nucleus of moral virtue [11] to the literal structure within cells—demonstrates the word’s versatility in capturing the essence of what is central and foundational in both thought and matter.
- Instinct the nucleus of reason.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - In this sense the Oedipus-complex is correctly designated as the nucleus of the neurosis.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - As was expected and intended, the lease became a permanent occupancy, the nucleus settlement of the future State of Tennessee.
— from Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney - In 1771 he led a colony to the Watauga river and established the settlement which became the nucleus of the future state of Tennessee.
— from Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney - The original nucleus and the subsequent expansions of the settlement, east, west and north, are thereby indicated.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States by George T. Flom - This original group then suggests additional names until they have all agreed upon a list sufficient in size to form a nucleus.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post - The red blood-cells of the former have a nucleus; those of the latter have not.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget - Their red blood-cells have no nucleus, whereas this is retained in all other vertebrates.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - In the embryos of the mammals the red cells have a nucleus and the power of increasing by cleavage (Fig. 10).
— from The Fables of Aesop by Aesop - Irradiating splendor issued from my nucleus to every part of the universal structure.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - And St. Hilaire declares, "Love for all beings is its nucleus; and to love our enemies, and not prosecute, are the virtues of this people."
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves
