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   From: mlwi@swipnet.se   
      
   "Critique of Synchronicity"   
      
   Abstract: Unlike his dream theory and theory of archetypes, Carl Jung's   
   notion of synchronicity hasn't met with success. The metaphysical system   
   surrounding the hypothesis includes notions of supernaturalism   
   (transcendence). This is a religio-philosophical viewpoint, rather than   
   a scientific. The deleterious consequences are obvious. It undermines   
   scientific respectability, promotes superstition, and has kindled   
   obsolete polytheistic ideas in the post-Jungians. There is to date no   
   scientific evidence to support synchronicity. But the strongest argument   
   against the synchronistic notion is the fact that it hasn't proved   
   helpful in any respect. Jung's unitarian model of the human self is   
   criticized. The self really consists of two complementary aspects, a   
   worldly and a spiritual.   
      
   Keywords: meaningful coincidence, archetype, unus mundus, psychoid,   
   transcendental, polytheism, Hegel, Platonism, complementarian self.   
      
   Read my new article here:   
   http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/synchronicity.htm   
      
   Mats Winther   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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