Twelve essays by the distinguished analyst Marie-Louise von Franz—five of them appearing in English for the first time—discuss synchronicity, number and time, and contemporary areas of rapprochement between the natural sciences and analytical psychology with regard to the relationship between mind and matter. This last question is among the most crucial today for fields as varied as microphysics, psychosomatic medicine, biology, quantum physics, and depth psychology.
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Marie-Louise von Franz (1915–1998) was the foremost student of C. G. Jung, with whom she worked closely from 1934 until his death in 1961. A founder of the C. G. Jung Institute of Zurich, she published widely on subjects including alchemy, dreams, fairy tales, personality types, and psychotherapy.
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Mind, Matter and Meaning,
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These 12 essays, written between 1960-1986, show Marie-Louise von Franz, C.G. Jung's longtime colleague, at her best. She addresses typical Jungian themes--archetypes, dreams, alchemy, synchronicity, time--with uncommon lucidity.
Whether you agree with Jung's theories or not, there is no doubt that he vastly expanded the field of the mind and the language with which to investigate it. Unfortunately for some of us with simpler minds, his language was sometimes so flooded with esoteric reference, arcane symbolism, and mythological allusion that his treatises are difficult to wade through. Marie-Louise von Franz acts as a filter for Jung's sometimes turbulent and opaque stream of consciousness. She separates out the superfluous and clarifies the convoluted. The ideas and hypotheses that remain are still fairly complex, but her astute interpretations are very helpful. Two of the essays deal brilliantly with time. One of them, Time: Rhythm and Repose, is the backbone of the book by the same name, brought out by Thames and Hudson, with wonderful illustrations. Five of the essays deal with synchronicity, which Marie-Louise boils down to something like this: An unconscious image arises into consciousness as a dream, an idea, or a premonition. This mental representation coincides with an external event that is equivalent in meaning. Something already present internally has become externally verifiable. However, equivalents of this type often take place in the absence of an observer who can perceive their meaning. Thus, meaning is an unalienable part of the synchronistic phenomena. This is, by no means, the end of the discussion, but in it you have the thematic thread that runs through the essays: that mind and matter are two sides of one coin, and that the meaning we give the coin determines its value. Or as Marie-Louise says: " ...at such times, physical and psychic worlds are two facets of the same reality." All in all, these are elegant elaborations on Jung's complicated themes, and are wonderfully enriching to read.
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Physics is grappling with the same problems that Marie Louise von Franz tackles in her book, Psyche and Matter. An amazing book of insights which help clarify that relationship between matter and psyche...or that they are the same: just different perspectives.
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chronicity principle, acausal orderedness, repeats itself sporadically, psychic orderedness, synchronicity hypothesis, aeonic time, unus mundus, synchronistic phenomena, synchronistic events, objective psyche, nous poietikos, creation occurring, natural integers, mysterium coniunctionis, ego complex, illud tempus, prima causa, unconscious psyche, primal substance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Costa de Beauregard, Wolfgang Pauli, Marie-Louise von Franz, Richard Wilhelm, Book of Changes, Michel Cazenave, David Bohm, Hans Bender, Middle Ages, Princeton University Press, The Natural Philosophy of Time, Aniela Jaffé, Collected Works, Sapientia Dei, Arthur Koestler, Giordano Bruno, Hubert Reeves, The Tao of Physics, Thomas Aquinas, Fritjof Capra, Hermann Weyl, Joseph Needham, Marcel Granet, Niels Bohr New!
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chronicity principle, acausal orderedness, repeats itself sporadically, psychic orderedness, synchronicity hypothesis, aeonic time, unus mundus, synchronistic phenomena, synchronistic events, objective psyche, nous poietikos, creation occurring, natural integers, mysterium coniunctionis, ego complex, illud tempus, prima causa, unconscious psyche, primal substance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Costa de Beauregard, Wolfgang Pauli, Marie-Louise von Franz, Richard Wilhelm, Book of Changes, Michel Cazenave, David Bohm, Hans Bender, Middle Ages, Princeton University Press, The Natural Philosophy of Time, Aniela Jaffé, Collected Works, Sapientia Dei, Arthur Koestler, Giordano Bruno, Hubert Reeves, The Tao of Physics, Thomas Aquinas, Fritjof Capra, Hermann Weyl, Joseph Needham, Marcel Granet, Niels Bohr New!
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- Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung on 12 pages
- Psychology and Alchemy (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.12) by C. G. Jung on 12 pages
- The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche (Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 8) by C. G. Jung on 10 pages
- Mysterium Coniunctionis: An Inquiry into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 14) by C. G. Jung on 9 pages
- Collected Works of C.G. Jung: General Bibliography of C.G. Jung's Writings (Vol 19) by C.G. Jung on 8 pages
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- The Secret Life of Puppets by Victoria Nelson on 4 pages
- Synchronicity, Science, and Soulmaking: Understanding Jungian Syncronicity Through Physics, Buddhism, and Philosphy by Victor Mansfield on page 22, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Mystery of Matter by James Arraj on page 40, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Archetypal Dimensions of the Psyche by Marie-Louise von Franz in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Soul in Grief: Love, Death and Transformation by Robert Romanyshyn in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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