First place coverjacket in the professional, scholarly series, new york book. Synchronicity is a word coined by the swiss psychologist carl jung to describe the temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events. Full text of synchronicity an acausal connecting principle jung. I have read it a dozen times and it rings true to the fact that their seriously are no accidents in life. Synchronicity an acausal connecting principle jung. Jungs book on synchronicity behind all these phenomena he places the constellation of an archetype which, in his view, engages equally objective manifestations in the physical world and subjective ones in the individuals psyche. The art of coincidence, choice, and unlocking your. On synchronicity, originally delivered as a lecture at the 1951 eranos conference synchronicity. An acausal connecting principle bollingen series xx. It was a principle that he felt compassed his concept of the collective unconscious, in that it was descriptive of a governing dynamic that underlay the whole of human experience. Carl jung discusses synchronicity, clairvoyance, esp, telekinesis, and other psychic phenomena in scientific terms. An acausal connecting principle, a vastly expanded version of the 1951 paper, originally published in 1952 alongside an essay by pauli in the interpretation of nature and the psyche english translation 1955. Jung, is a book published by princeton university press in 1960. Top american libraries canadian libraries universal library community texts project gutenberg biodiversity heritage library childrens library.
This paperback edition of jungs classic work includes a new foreword by sonu shamdasani, philemon professor of jung history at university college london. Allan combs is author of more than 100 articles, chapters, and books on. The art of coincidence, change, and unlocking your. Jung introduced the concept as early as the 1920s but only gave a full statement of it in 1951 in an eranos lecture, then in 1952 published a paper synchronicity an acausal connecting principle in a volume with a related study by the physicist and nobel winner wolfgang pauli. Synchronicity reveals the full extent of jungs research into a wide range of psychic phenomena.
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