Series: Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies
Hardcover: 152 pages
Publisher: Routledge (June 4, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415810434
ISBN-13: 978-0415810432
Time and Timelessness: Temporality in the theory of Carl Jung (Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies)
Jung proposed a profound truth: that time is relative at large. To appreciate the whole of our experience we must reach beyond causality and temporal linearity, to develop an approach that allows for multidimensional and synchronistic experiences. Jung’s understanding surpassed Freud’s dichotomous approach which restricted timelessness to the unconscious; his time theory allows us to reach beyond the everyday time-bound world into a greater realm, rich with meaning and connection.
This book is the first to explore time and timelessness in a systematic manner from a Jungian perspective, and the first to investigate how the concept of time affected the overall development of Jung’s theory. It will be key reading for psychoanalytic scholars and clinicians, as well as those working in the field of phenomenological philosophy.
CONTENTS
Preface
Chapter 1: Jung and time, the beginning: Asserting the largest order
- Time before Septem Sermones Ad Mortuos: symbolic elaborations
- Septem Sermones Ad Mortuos and time
- Symbolic precursors of analytical psychology
Chapter 2: The unfolding of Jung’s time theory: Dreaming the myth onwards
- The paradoxical temporality of the archetype
- Retrospection and forward movement
- Teleology and causality in the psyche: methodological considerations
Chapter 3: Long-range effects in time
- Expressions of the psyche’s temporality: telepathy, dreams and foreknowledge
- Exploring the psychophysical reality: the psychoid archetype
- The outstanding question of the space-time concept
- Time and the transcendent nature of the psychoid: the introduction of synchronicity
- Chronos in synchronicity
- Observing meaning
- Correspondence on a complex and vexing idea
Chapter 4: A unified reality
- Symbolic elaborations
Chapter 5: The death of time: Mythical consciousness and the descent to the archaic
- Death in the Jungian paradigm: a symbolic perspective
- Mythical and eschatological consciousness
- The descent to the archaic
- Synchronicity: reconnecting with the archaic
Chapter 6: Time and spatial metaphors
- Jung’s search for meaning: beyond space-time duality
- Concluding remarks
- Time and synchronicity: manifesting meaning
- The ripe time for knowledge
- Death and time: embodied and disembodied time
- Symbols, spatial metaphors and the poetry of time
- Appendix: Freud on memory, the primal scene and the concept of Nachträglichkeit
Tags: archetype, death, Septem Sermones Ad Mortuos, time
