From Symbol to Science

Jung had an early intuition of the relativity of space and time in the unconscious. From the viewpoint of the unconscious, they are not absolute categories. It took him years, beginning with a conversation with Einstein in 1912, extending through his relationship with Richard Wilhelm and the latter's important translation into German of the Chinese classic, the I Ching, through his extensive discussions with Wolfgang Pauli, the Nobel physicist, before he would arrive at his formulation of a theory of synchronicity. The attempt to integrate the synchronistic principle into the paradigm of science was the final stage of this Herculean effort to bring the notion of meaningful chance into the scientific worldview, based as it is so fundamentally on the dogma of causality. In this essay, I attempt to trace the evolution of Jung's thinking

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