Where East meets West

In the house of individuation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9056567
AutoresMargot B Stein (0000-0001-9564-2871, autor de correspondencia), Murray Stein (0009-0006-4459-1780, Zürich Switzerland)
Año2017
Volumen62
Número1
Páginas67-87
Fecha de publicación2017-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Analytical Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-8774 • E-ISSN: 1465-5922
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-5922.12280
PMID28093763
OpenAlexW2573738799
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas4

The psychological process of individuation as experienced in Jungian work may lead to states of consciousness that resemble advanced spiritual developments across religious traditions and cultures. This is where Westerners may reach a common ground with the East. In the essentials and with respect to the final goal there is little difference among the many ways to the self, even if the cultural features in the landscape are disparate. In late stage Jungian analysis and individuation and in what Erich Neumann calls ‘centroversion’, the personal and the impersonal aspects of the personality accumulate around the ego‐self axis to form a composite identity. In this complex structure the ego does not vanish but is joined to the impersonal archetypal levels of the psyche and identity thus becomes at once individual and archetypal. This is the third stage of conjunction as described by Jung in Mysterium Coniunctionis and it is identical to the type of consciousness depicted in the final scenes of Zen Buddhism's Ten Ox‐Herding Pictures

Aesthetics · Consciousness · Epistemology · Id, ego and super-ego · Identity (music) · Individuation · Psyche · Psychoanalysis · Self · Jungian Analytical Psychology · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Social Psychology