Prologue to The Synchronicity Paper
Part 2 · Organizing Concepts

Gibbs A. Williams, Ph.D.
 

The following is a list of organizing concepts utilized in trying to do that which Jung says is not even possible; namely, proposing an intellectual explanation for these odd events.

External Reality (consensual validated reality)
Internal reality
Contents and Structures in inner reality
Freud's metapsychology -(Dynamic, topographic, structural, economic, genetic, adaptive organizing constructs)
Contextual analysis: situational context, immediate context, psychological contexts
Psychodynamics
Logic - conventional 'scientific' linear logic;
Experiential logic
Conventional linear 'scientific' causality
Tertiary, synthetic, psychodynamic causality
A principle of a-causality
Meaning, meaning making
Simultaneity
Linear time (past, present, future); durational time (no time, play time, pre-oedipal time)
Bounded space; unbounded space
Synthetic, tertiary, psychodynamic, experiential logic
The realms of being and doing
Self esteem, self esteem regulation, object constancy, self constancy
Filters of experience
Contextual analysis
Cohesive, incohesive self
Psychological grid lock - (perceived binary impasses)
Zero point - (stuck point)
Psychological readiness (passive - active readiness)
Meaning making
The creative process
Consciousness, pre-oedipal consciousness, oedipal consciousness
Consciousness expansion, consciousness of consciousness
Psychic organizers.
Transitional phenomena, the realm of transitional experience, transitional objects
Adaptation, assimilation, accommodation
Magnetizing 'the realm of possibilities'
Positive reverberation oscillation; negative reverberation oscillation
Runs of synchronistic phenomena
Psychological treasure hunt
The creative process

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