Where East meets West
In the house of individuation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9056567 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margot B Stein (0000-0001-9564-2871, corresponding author), Murray Stein (0009-0006-4459-1780, Zürich Switzerland) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-87 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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 | 10.1111/1468-5922.12280 |
| PMID | 28093763 |
| OpenAlex | W2573738799 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 4 |
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
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |