Critique of Synchronicity

[Mats Winther]

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. It is akin to the Christological notion of hypostasis. This would call for an altered view of reality, according to a paradigm of "dual wholeness".

Keywords: meaningful coincidence, archetype, unus mundus, psychoid, transcendental, polytheism, hypostatic union, Platonism, complementarian Self.

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