Synchronicity and the capacity to think
A clinical exploration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8982378 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Annie Reiner (Los Angeles City College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 553-573 |
| Publication date | 2006-08-18 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Analytical Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8774 • E-ISSN: 1465-5922 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-5922.2006.00497.x |
| PMID | 16918799 |
| OpenAlex | W1498841108 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Synchronicity blurs the boundaries of psyche and physis. This invisible dance of mind and matter suggested to Jung an interconnection between physical and mental events reflecting a unified 'psychophysical space-time continuum'. His idea of exteriorization put forth the notion that unconscious thoughts can manifest themselves in the external world. I have related this to Bion's theory of thinking, where thoughts, which should be a prelude to action, become actions in themselves, projections of unthought thoughts. Through detailed clinical work with dreams I will explore the effects of early trauma on the development of the capacity to think, and the way in which synchronistic events relate to projections of early traumatic experiences which have not been 'mentalized
Epistemology · Humanities · Physics · Physis · Psychoanalysis · Synchronicity · Jungian Analytical Psychology · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |