Synchronicity An Acausal Connecting Principle. From Vol. 8. of Collected Works of

Jung was intrigued from early in his career with coincidences, especially those surprising juxtapositions that scientific rationality could not adequately explain. He discussed these ideas with Albert Einstein before World War I, but first used the term 'synchronicity' in a 1930 lecture, in reference to the unusual psychological insights generated from consulting the I Ching. A long correspondence and friendship with the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli stimulated a final, mature statement of Jung's thinking on synchronicity, originally published in 1952 and reproduced here. Together with a wealth of historical and contemporary material, this essay describes an astrological experiment Jung conducted to test his theory. "Synchronicity" reveals the full extent of Jung's research into a wide range of psychic phenomena. This paperback edition of Jung's classic work includes a new foreword by Sonu Shamdasani, Philemon Professor of Jung History at University College London.

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C. G. Jung
Translated by R.F.C. Hull
With a new foreword by Sonu Shamdasani

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• Authors: C. G. Jung, C. G./ Hull Jung
• Assisted by: Sonu Shamdasani (Foreword), R. F.C. Hull (Translation)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 25.10.2010
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis
• EAN: 9780691150505
• ISBN: 978-0-691-15050-5
• Pages: 152
• Dimensions (packing): 14 x 21.6 x 1.1 cm
• Series: Princeton University Press; Jung Extracts; Bollingen Series (General); Bollingen Series
• Subjects: Individuation, Symptom, Statistics, Johannes Kepler, Determination, Philosophy, Psychology, Theory, reality, consciousness, Astrology, Observation, Criticism, Reason, Existence, Coincidence, Explanation, Hans Driesch, Archetype, Carl Jung, Calculation, probability, Lao-tzu, Society for Psychical Research, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Thought, Wolfgang Pauli, Skepticism, Principle, Psychic powers and psychic phenomena, Analytical & Jungian psychology, Parapsychological studies, Taoism, statistic, Robert Fludd, Hypothesis, monograph, Phenomenon, Theodicy, Certainty, interdependence, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, natural philosophy, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Psychic Phenomena / General, Image of God, foreknowledge, causality, modern physics, physicist, Parapsychology, poisson distribution, Result, Correspondence Theory of Truth, Psychophysical Parallelism, Quantity, active imagination, monadology, Scientific theory, horoscope, Proportion (architecture), Maxima and minima, The Various, Treatise, All things, extrasensory perception, Sonu Shamdasani, Psychology and Alchemy, Universality (philosophy), simultaneity, Self-experimentation, precognition, astrological sign, The Soul of the World, Incident (Scientology), The Secret of the Golden Flower, Tertium comparationis