Archetypes & Strange Attractors: The Chaotic World of Symbols

by John R. Van Eenwyk

Jung's theory of symbolic influence has, since the advent of Chaos Theory, been given new credence. A graduate of Zurich's C.G. Jung Institute, John R. Van Eenwyk, discusses here how the new science... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0919123767
• ISBN13: 9780919123762
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Inner City Books
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

what a propitious book this is

this book bridges cognitive domains as diverse as physics and psychology, spirituality and literature: the result is an extremely valuable key for anyone who longs to enter a fully-integrated, -engaged existence. here jungian insights are validated by chaos theory, and spiritual growth and its attendant struggles are mirrored by folk-tales. kierkegaard once said that life must be lived forward but that it can only be understood by looking backwards; this book clarifies and validates and makes sense of much of the hardships in our past, and thus strengthens our resolve to move forward with much courage and faith and trust. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Es un libro inquietante

Dentro de este libro se plantea la coneccion entra la teoria sicologica de Jung y la teoria de Caos. Como aquellos conceptos de simbolos, arquetipos, complejos de la teoria de Jung pueden ser traduccidos de manera sencilla a los conceptos de la teoria del caos como variedades, bifurcaciones, oscilaciones, fractales, etc. En este libro se plantea la tesis que el caos es algo natural en nuestra siquis que una siquis sana es caotica !!!. Pero el caos de la siquis sana esta basado en un caos deterministico, el cual a su vez va generar un orden superior al que habia antes que existiese el caos, son los trances o las pruebas que tiene que para el individuo en su proceso de evolucion (el proceso individualizacion). Este libro tambien hace un analisis literario en terminos de la teoria de caos de un cuento "La mujer de piedra" y un mito "Eros y Phique"

A fine example of a psychology-physics bridge

Bridging inquiry and speculation into the inner details of the psyche is seductive work. As with any seduction, it can lead to wonderful acts of creation and enjoyment, but also to messy thinking - fallacies of misplaced concreteness (Whitehead), in which the poetic pleasure of expressing parallels between psyche and cosmos can obscure both careful thinking and genuine insight into difficult realities. I find this to be a special danger in the world of Jungian concepts, primarily because the old wizard himself set the stage for exploring links between the science of mind and the mysteries that are not yet in the reach of a given science. The math and physics of quantum and complexity theories, and of dynamic systems, are both extraordinarily demanding and extraordinarily revealing in their relevance to anything in the world that partakes of interaction, and owes and contributes its nature to other complex interactions. That is to say, anything in the world, seen out of isolation, without any excess of empirical or conceptual filtration. I've read Eenwyk's book twice now, and found it illuminating in both its intelligent and accessible handling of the physics and math involved, and of the fragile but necessary connections of the infinite dynamic of the mind and the world. Highly recommended.