One of the most powerful narratives gripping scientists, intellectuals, and the general culture in Europe during the early decades of the twentieth century was that the world had become disenchanted: stripped of genuine mystery, lacking inherent meaning, and unrelated to any spiritual or divine reality.
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Meaning The Meaning of Meaning in Meaningful Coincidence Shaking the Security of Our Scientific Foundations Meaning in Science Conclusion Endnotes 4.
Mystery Jung\'s Studies and Experiences of Anomalous Phenomena Synchronicity as a FrameWork for Understanding Anomalous Phenomena Synchronicity and Categories of Anomalous Phenomena Synchronicity and Jung\'s Anomalous Experiences Jung\'s Focus on the Meaning of Anomalous Phenomena The Meaning of Jung\'s Anomalous Experiences Conclusion Endnotes 3.
Disenchantment Disenchantment in Weber\'s Science as a Vocation Jung\'s Experience of Disenchantment Responses to Disenchantment Jung\'s Response to Disenchantment Individuation Breaking the Spell of Disenchantment: The Countermagic of Individuation Enchantment-Disenchantment-Reenchantment Jung, Weber, and the Unio Mystica Conclusion Endnotes 2.
Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1.
This is Volume 8 in the Zurich Lecture Series Collection.
The vision that emerges is of a particularly rich and distinctive form of holism, valuable not only for psychotherapy but also as a critical perspective on some of our current social, political, and environmental crises, insofar as these have roots in the still prevalent story of disenchantment.
He then focuses in turn on Jung\'s lifelong engagement with anomalous phenomena, his concept of synchronicity as a principle of acausal connection through meaning, and his implicit panentheistic Metaphysics to show in greater detail how, contrary to disenchantment, analytical psychology affirms genuine mystery, inherent meaning, and relationship to spiritual or divine reality.
After explaining the complex and ambivalent nature of disenchantment and the many different responses to it, Main shows how the Jungian process of individuation intrinsically fosters a culturally much needed reenchantment of the world, though in a way that also continues to acknowledge the role of both disenchantment and naïve enchantment.
Jung\'s analytical psychology, developed during this same period, can be seen to challenge that dominant narrative.
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In Breaking the Spell of Disenchantment, Roderick Main examines various ways in which C.
One of the most powerful narratives gripping scientists, intellectuals, and the general culture in Europe during the early decades of the twentieth century was that the world had become disenchanted: stripped of genuine mystery, lacking inherent meaning, and unrelated to any spiritual or divine reality
