BELOW: The introduction to my latest paper, 'Jung and Science'. I haven't finished writing it yet but will inform Depth Psych Alliance when I have done so.
Introduction.
In this paper I outline the basics concerning the Swiss psychologist, Carl Jung’s approach to the deep psyche and its link to science. I then go on to express my post-Jungian view concerning psychology and hard science with references to psyche and matter and the technological Singularity. However, I also maintain the psychological perspective remembering that whatever unification can emerge between psyche and physics and regardless of any prima materia becoming hard conscious science..... I nevertheless speak from the side of psychology, i.e., at the preconscious, partial knowing, partial unknowing borderland.
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February 2011: I uploaded a free paper to read titled "JUNG AND SCIENCE". I was going to upload the document for customers to purchase. However I have decided to be patient and more professional (less in-a-rush.) Hence rather than trying to say things of value quickly and then uploading documents I have made a firm commitment to study THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY for about a year and then (and only then) upload a paper onto my Docstoc site available for purchase.
Paul
"The prima materia of any enterprise would be the chaotic place where the work begins. [...] What is most chaotic right now in physics is our understanding of quantum mechanics. Our "most successful theory," yet the one that generates the most resistance." (John R. Haule, personal correspondence)
My Question: Could Quantum Mechanics be considered as the archetype of Modern Physics? - - - i.e., in the same way that Alchemy was the prima materia of Modern Chemistry?
Any thoughts?
Paul.
I have uploaded my JUNG AND SCIENCE essay onto my Docstoc site. I have made it FREE to read and it will remain so until Thursday morning.
The address you need is
http://www.docstoc.com/profile/paulbudds
Paul.
I think that the word "science" is itself a con-fused one as there is a fundamental difference between "exact" natural science and the sciences of the human spirit (Geisteswissenschaften), which are not mathematically but hermeneutically guided. Moreover, there is also a major difference between CLASSICAL (Newtonian) science and MODERN science, which includes the "open" ontology of quantum physics--with its Principle of Uncertainty, Relativity, and Complementarity.
For my part, I think that Jung's psychology, although it is formulated in classical Kantian concepts, has more in common with the epistemological spirit of quantum field theory.