Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology): Nature and Psyche in an ... and Ernest Fay Analytical Psychology) - Softcover

Cambray, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603443002 ISBN 13: 9781603443005

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press, 2012

Synopsis

After contextualizing Jung’s work in relation to contemporary scientific advancements such as relativity and quantum theories, Joseph Cambray explores in this book how Jung’s theories, practices, and clinical methods influenced the current field of complexity theory, which works with a paradox similar to Jung’s synchronicity: the importance of symmetry as well as the need to break that symmetry for ‘emergence’ to occur.

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"Cambray's book offers a different view of synchronicity than Jungian readers are used to encountering and his cutting-edge research and scholarship in physics, neuroscience and cultural history make this book a fine extension and contribution to the synchronicity literature."--;/div>--Susan Meindl "C.G. Jung Society of Montreal "

"In his study of Synchronicity, Joseph Cambray has masterfully blended the historical and known with the cutting and emerging edges of humanity's grasp of its inner and outer reality. He has managed to produce a book that a novice in Jungian studies would find comprehensible, and that C. G. Jung himself would find compelling."--"A Meeting of Rare Minds," preface to Atom and Archetype. The Pauli-Jung Correspondence --Beverley Zabriskie "Jungian Analyst "

"Joe Cambray has been at the forefront of new developments in Jungian theory and practice over the last decade. This book provides an opportunity to see the range and depth of his thinking on synchronicity in its entirety. For Jung, synchronicity marked the furthest limit of his investigation of the nature of the psyche, but he also wrestled with the contradictions and dilemmas it presented. Cambray finds the key to resolving these problems in the contemporary sciences of complexity, and carries us a great distance towards a more integrated understanding of Jung's initial insight. Cambray's argument, that synchronicity can be seen as an emergent property of complex dynamic systems, allows him to shed light on the role synchronicity plays in a wide variety of phenomena, ranging from the clinical consulting room to the emergence of democratic governance in classical Greece. On the way, Cambray provides the most carefully thought through analysis of the relationship of Jung's original sense that synchronicity was compatible with modern particle physics--which he persistently sought to validate in his correspondence with Wolfgang Pauli--to be found in the current literature. Cambray's book is essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of this central element in C.G. Jung's system of psychology."--;I>Jung's Struggle with Freud--George B. Hogenson "author, Jung's Struggle with Freud "

" . . . one of the finest books in the Fay Series. . . Cambray has written the clearest and most coherent study to date on the subject of synchronicity. This book deserves to be widely read and disseminiated because in the past 'synchronicity' has been enshrouded with confusion and prejudice and the general reader has not been able to find a suitable point of entry into the debate. . . What is remarkable about this book is that Cambray takes synchronicity out of the confines of Jungian studies and links it to current research taking place in a variety of new and exciting fields in physics and the natural sciences."--Journal of Analytical Psychology

-- (08/01/2010)

About the Author

JOSEPH CAMBRAY is the president-elect of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. He is a consulting editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology, and coeditor of Analytical Psychology: Contemporary Perspectivces in Jungian Analysis (Brunner-Routledge, 2004). He resides in Providence, Rhode Island.

About this edition

• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1603443002
• ISBN 13: 9781603443005
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164