Links to my articles, for spiritual development

[M Winther]

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* Links to articles by Mats Winther *
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The Self in Historical Light - Iamblichus versus Porphyry

Description: The Neoplatonic and the modern ideals of Self are discussed
and criticized, such as the Freudian primal Self and the post-Jungian
puerile Self.

http://mlwi.magix.net/iamblichus.htm
________________________________________________________

Critique of Individuation

Description: Individuation as the process of maturation is connected
with the way of the spirit. The ego abandonment of spiritual tradition
must be taken seriously.

http://mlwi.magix.net/individuation.htm
________________________________________________________

The Boardgame Mandala

Description: Board game patterns portray cultural transformations in the
collective psyche in the form of mandala shapes pertaining to the whole
numbers, such as three and four.

http://mlwi.magix.net/boardgam1.htm
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The Upward and Downward Paths of the Spirit

Description: Psychology's one-sided focus on the integration of the
unconscious must be counterbalanced by a traditional notion of spiritual
ascent.

http://mlwi.magix.net/projection.htm
________________________________________________________

Ethical Complementarity - a Complementarian Moral Theory

Description: Complementarity, as employed in quantum physics, is
relevant to moral philosophy. The moral of the heart is complementary to
a view that equates evil with disorder.

http://mlwi.magix.net/morality.htm
________________________________________________________

Spirit and Psyche ~ Complementary Paradigms

Description: Various spiritual traditions are discussed, including
Hermeticism. Psychology must accommodate spiritual transcendence as
counterweight to the worldly perspective.

http://mlwi.magix.net/spiritual_paradigm.htm
________________________________________________________

The Spiritual Method - complementation as spiritual writing

Description: Complementation, as opposed to psychological integration,
underlies a spiritual technique that requires a toning down of dominant
consciousness.

http://mlwi.magix.net/spiritualmethod.htm
________________________________________________________

Bergman themes - leitmotives in the films of Ingmar Bergman

Description: A discussion of central themes in Ingmar Bergman's films.
The article discusses social and existential misery and its spiritual
remedy.

http://mlwi.magix.net/bergman.htm
________________________________________________________

Jung and Swedenborg: modern Neoplatonists

Description: Carl Jung's indebtedness to Neoplatonism and Swedish mystic
Emanuel Swedenborg is demonstrated. The ideal of worldly fulfilment is
criticized.

http://mlwi.magix.net/neoplatonism.htm
________________________________________________________

Complementation in Psychology

Description: 'Complementation' is the opposite of 'integration'. It
means the reversion of psychic libido into an unconscious state
associated with spirituality.

http://mlwi.magix.net/complementation.htm
________________________________________________________

Critique of Synchronicity

Description: Carl Jung's idea of synchronicity is criticized. A concept
of Self as both worldly and spiritual ought to be substituted for the
unitarian model.

http://mlwi.magix.net/synchronicity.htm
________________________________________________________

Jungian concepts in the light of quantum physics

Description: About quantum physics and whether or not it sustains a
Platonic worldview, the 'psychoid' archetype, and synchronicity. The
nature of mind is discussed.

http://mlwi.magix.net/quantumbrain.htm
________________________________________________________

The Puer Aeternus - underminer of civilization

Description: The puer aeternus (Peter Pan) is a mythological image that
also denotes a mother complex connected with psychological rootlessness.

http://mlwi.magix.net/puer.htm
________________________________________________________

Complementation in fairytales

Description: Interpretation of a fairy tale (The Golden Blackbird)
following 'psychological complementation', having to do with
augmentation of unconscious life.

http://mlwi.magix.net/blackbird.htm
________________________________________________________

The Dark Shadow Of The Quaternity - a critique of the Jungian unitarian Self

Description: A critique of Carl Jung's Self model centering on his
dreams and visions. 'Complementation' is forwarded as counterpart to
psychological integration.

http://mlwi.magix.net/crucifixion.htm
________________________________________________________

The Complementarian Self - the Twofold Self

Description: The psychological Self is both this-worldly and
otherworldly following the principle of complementarity. It coincides
with the theological view of Christ.

http://mlwi.magix.net/compself.htm
________________________________________________________

The Blood Sacrifice - its symbolism and psychology

Description: Victimization is analyzed as an archaic method of ego
emancipation by which the transgressor's unconscious suffering is
transferred to the victim.

http://mlwi.magix.net/bloodsac.htm
________________________________________________________

Symbolic Poverty - on the capacity of relating symbolically with life

Description: Absent the symbolical relation to 'dark nature' and natural
evil, Western man eschews suffering, finding appeal in idealistic
illusions of earthly welfare.

http://mlwi.magix.net/symbolic1.htm
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An intrusion of matriarchal consciousness

Description: The collective mind is reverting to matriarchal
conceptions, abandoning traditional Western values that allow for
'differences'. It leads to cultural neurosis.

http://mlwi.magix.net/matriarchal.htm
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Dependency in the analytic relationship

Description: Three cases of psychological dependency, in analysands of
C.G. Jung, are investigated. Their dreams show that personal
emancipation is pivotal.

http://mlwi.magix.net/dependency.htm
________________________________________________________

The animistic archetypal nature of the unconscious

Description: The unconscious has an animistic structure. Therefore
Platonic Forms or Jungian archetypes are essential concepts to have
knowledge of the unconscious.

http://mlwi.magix.net/animism.htm
________________________________________________________

The Burning Issue: Race and Racialism

Description: Racial strife continues. Research finds that racial
awareness is innate, which explains why multiculturalism and
'colour-blindness' are ineffective.

http://mlwi.magix.net/racial_problem.htm
________________________________________________________

Insights into the Race Issue

Description: Is 'race' still relevant for understanding the human
condition? Refusal to acknowledge racial differences engenders an
unconscious ethnoracial complex.

http://mlwi.magix.net/raceinsight.htm
________________________________________________________

Understanding European psychology

Description: The mind of the typical modern European is very much a
product of medieval times. The Middle Ages has endowed us with valuable
mental gifts.

http://mlwi.magix.net/interiority.htm
________________________________________________________

A Critique of Feminism - on Women's Collective Shadow

Description: Women harbour a secret wish to remain in dependency,
subordinated to a strong man. It is exacerbated by the feminist call to
cast off feminine nature.

http://mlwi.magix.net/feminismcrit.htm
________________________________________________________

Two psychoanalytic methods

Description: Psychoanalysis ought not always strive to resolve the
unconscious problem. A higher expression must instead be sought for the
'irresolvable complex'.

http://mlwi.magix.net/twoanalyses.htm
________________________________________________________

Mysterium Iniquitatis - the mystery of evil

Description: By an archaic means of ego emancipation, the transgressor's
unconscious suffering is transferred to the victim. It aims at
ego-empowerment.

http://mlwi.magix.net/iniquitatis.htm
________________________________________________________

Cognitive Science and the Archetypal Unconscious

Description: Can cognitive science and its notion of innate unconscious
metaphor inform Jungian psychology? Transcendental philosophy is criticized.

http://mlwi.magix.net/cognitive.htm
________________________________________________________

Thanatos - a contribution to the understanding of the collective shadow

Description: Thanatos (the death drive) is an inner compulsion that
protects against unconscious wholeness during which the borders of
personality are dangerously dissolved.

http://mlwi.magix.net/thanatos.htm
________________________________________________________

Complementaris Mundus - a complementarian metaphysic

Description: The world is both material and spiritual. Yet, in
accordance with the complementarity principle, it is not experiential as
a dual world.

http://mlwi.magix.net/dualmetaphysic.htm
________________________________________________________

The real meaning of the motif of the dying god

Description: The mythic theme of the dying god depicts the mystery of
incarnation, symbolic of the propitious and liberating function of
conscious realization.

http://mlwi.magix.net/archetypes.htm
________________________________________________________

The Unconscious Spiritual Nature

Description: What is the nature of 'spirit'? From dreams we can deduce
that it ever searches to manifest via the unconscious, through
mysterious symbol.

http://mlwi.magix.net/spiritfish.htm
________________________________________________________

The Sphinxlike Unconscious

Description: Like the enigmatic sphinx, the unconscious is ultimately
unknowable. There is inside us a longing for archaic wholeness,
equatable with primary narcissism.

http://mlwi.magix.net/sphinx.htm
________________________________________________________

The psychodynamics of terrorism

Description: Terrorism springs from an archaic psychic economy of sin
transference. Its connection with the death drive and the historical
blood sacrifice is discussed.

http://mlwi.magix.net/terror.htm
________________________________________________________

Hero worship

Description: The hero archetype provides the impetus for personal
emancipation. Conflictingly, it gives rise to hubristic expansionism, to
the detriment of heartfelt values.

http://mlwi.magix.net/hero.htm
________________________________________________________

Critique of Neo-Hegelianism

Description: Critique is directed against Hegelianism and its
continuation in Marxist and postmodern philosophy. The myth of modernity
severs our roots in the natural order.

http://mlwi.magix.net/beastrev.htm
________________________________________________________

The penitential disease - neither psychic nor somatic?

Description: There are many handicapping illnesses that defy
explanation. It is suggested that these spring from existential stress
present in the collective unconscious psyche.

http://mlwi.magix.net/penitential.htm
________________________________________________________

Critique of idealistic phenomenologism

Description: The philosophy of idealistic phenomenology has a
continuance in post-Jungian theory, which continues to peddle
irrationality.

http://mlwi.magix.net/romanyshyn.htm
________________________________________________________

The Romantic Flight from Reality

Description: In 'Misinterpretation of Man', Paul Roubiczek formulates a
valuable critique of Romantic times and thought, highly topical for
today's world.

http://mlwi.magix.net/roubiczek.htm
________________________________________________________

Critique of Archetypal Psychology

Description: James Hillman's Archetypal Psychology reinterprets the
archetype according to phenomenology and furthers an amoral and
aesthetic worldview.

http://mlwi.magix.net/hillmcrit.htm
________________________________________________________

Winnicott's Dream - a Critique of Winnicott's Thought as a Form of
Mystical Narcissism

Description: Donald Winnicott's theory mirrors typical features of the
narcissistic disorder, such as recurrent destruction and subject-object
merger.

http://mlwi.magix.net/winni.htm
________________________________________________________

About group narcissism

Description: Group narcissism is discussed. The notions of a 'healthy'
narcissism and a 'natural narcissistic spectrum' are criticized.

http://mlwi.magix.net/groupnarc.htm
________________________________________________________

The Golden Blackbird

Description: An interpretation of fairy tale 'The Golden Blackbird'
according to Marie-Louise von Franz's method.

http://mlwi.magix.net/golden.htm
________________________________________________________

A constructive critique of the structural model in psychoanalysis

Description: Critique is directed against Freud's structural model that
generalizes an Oedipal pattern. The psyche is built around many more
complexes.

http://mlwi.magix.net/compstruc.htm
________________________________________________________

Critique of Intersubjectivity

Description: Intersubjectivity implies an involvement on the unconscious
level. But psychotherapy should not work toward a relative merger of our
conscious personalities.

http://mlwi.magix.net/intersubj.htm
________________________________________________________

The ongoing self-destruction of psychoanalysis

Description: The theoretical chaos in psychoanalysis depends on an
insufficient metaphysical groundwork. Empirical science must be
buttressed by a metaphysical foundation.

http://mlwi.magix.net/destruc.htm
________________________________________________________

The case of "Dora"

Description: An attempt at reinterpretation of Freud's famous case of
'Dora'.

http://mlwi.magix.net/dora.htm
________________________________________________________

Edinger – the ego prophet

Description: In Edward F. Edinger's analysis of religious and alchemical
themes the symbolic value is depleted as symbols are subjected to
onesided intellectualization.

http://mlwi.magix.net/edeng.htm
________________________________________________________

Psychoanalysis at the crossroad

Description: To avoid conceptual isolation, a clarification of
metapsychological assumptions is called for. Knowledge of the
unconscious belongs in public consciousness.

http://mlwi.magix.net/psychemp.htm
________________________________________________________

Critique of Conflict Theory

Description: Charles Brenner's 'Conflict Theory' is neurotic, as such.
It cannot function as a model of the normal psyche, where conscious and
unconscious are separated.

http://mlwi.magix.net/brenner.htm
________________________________________________________

The Limits of Science

Description: A scientific outlook requires that we accept metaphysical
postulates insufficient for creating a full-fledged worldview. Ultimate
truth must be sought within.

http://mlwi.magix.net/science.htm
________________________________________________________

The Plastic Preachers - on inferior psychology and religion

Description: The modern collective spirit has brought forth a
personality capable of transforming any genuine subject matter into
plastic. These are the false preachers.

http://mlwi.magix.net/plastic.htm
________________________________________________________

The Morphic Deception

Description: Pseudoscientific New Age philosophy, advanced by thinkers
such as Rupert Sheldrake and Ken Wilber, is a blind alley in the world
of theory.

http://mlwi.magix.net/sheldrake.htm
________________________________________________________

Creativity - the unconscious source of the creative spirit

Description: There exists an unconscious form of creativity that
complements our daytime activity -- a spiritual power that ever searches
to manifest itself in human life.

http://mlwi.magix.net/creativity.htm
________________________________________________________

Rock Music Lyric Interpretation

Description: An attempt at interpretation of rock lyrics: 'The Hill and
Hibiscus Flowers' by Steve Harley.

http://mlwi.magix.net/the_hill.htm
________________________________________________________

Colour is objective mind - the grass really is green and the heavens
really are blue

Description: Critique is directed against lingering philosophical
Idealism and its counterpart, namely rationalistic physicalism.

http://mlwi.magix.net/objcolour.htm
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* Links to articles by Mats Winther *
* http://two-paths.com *
* *
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________________________________________________________________

The Self in Historical Light - Iamblichus versus Porphyry

Description: The Neoplatonic and the modern ideals of Self are discussed
and criticized, such as the Freudian primal Self and the post-Jungian
puerile Self.

http://mlwi.magix.net/iamblichus.htm
________________________________________________________________

Critique of Individuation

Description: Individuation as the process of maturation is connected
with the way of the spirit. The ego abandonment of spiritual tradition
must be taken seriously.

http://mlwi.magix.net/individuation.htm
________________________________________________________________

The Boardgame Mandala

Description: Board game patterns portray cultural transformations in the
collective psyche in the form of mandala shapes pertaining to the whole
numbers, such as three and four.

http://mlwi.magix.net/boardgam1.htm
________________________________________________________________

The Upward and Downward Paths of the Spirit

Description: Psychology's one-sided focus on the integration of the
unconscious must be counterbalanced by a traditional notion of spiritual
ascent.

http://mlwi.magix.net/projection.htm
________________________________________________________________

Ethical Complementarity - a Complementarian Moral Theory

Description: Complementarity, as employed in quantum physics, is
relevant to moral philosophy. The moral of the heart is complementary to
a view that equates evil with disorder.

http://mlwi.magix.net/morality.htm
________________________________________________________________

Spirit and Psyche ~ Complementary Paradigms

Description: Various spiritual traditions are discussed, including
Hermeticism. Psychology must accommodate spiritual transcendence as
counterweight to the worldly perspective.

http://mlwi.magix.net/spiritual_paradigm.htm
________________________________________________________________

The Spiritual Method - complementation as spiritual writing

Description: Complementation, as opposed to psychological integration,
underlies a spiritual technique that requires a toning down of dominant
consciousness.

http://mlwi.magix.net/spiritualmethod.htm
________________________________________________________________

Bergman themes - leitmotives in the films of Ingmar Bergman

Description: A discussion of central themes in Ingmar Bergman's films.
The article discusses social and existential misery and its spiritual
remedy.

http://mlwi.magix.net/bergman.htm
________________________________________________________________

Jung and Swedenborg: modern Neoplatonists

Description: Carl Jung's indebtedness to Neoplatonism and Swedish mystic
Emanuel Swedenborg is demonstrated. The ideal of worldly fulfilment is
criticized.

http://mlwi.magix.net/neoplatonism.htm
________________________________________________________________

Complementation in Psychology

Description: 'Complementation' is the opposite of 'integration'. It
means the reversion of psychic libido into an unconscious state
associated with spirituality.

http://mlwi.magix.net/complementation.htm
________________________________________________________________

Critique of Synchronicity

Description: Carl Jung's idea of synchronicity is criticized. A concept
of Self as both worldly and spiritual ought to be substituted for the
unitarian model.

http://mlwi.magix.net/synchronicity.htm
________________________________________________________________

Jungian concepts in the light of quantum physics

Description: About quantum physics and whether or not it sustains a
Platonic worldview, the 'psychoid' archetype, and synchronicity. The
nature of mind is discussed.

http://mlwi.magix.net/quantumbrain.htm
________________________________________________________________

The Puer Aeternus - underminer of civilization

Description: The puer aeternus (Peter Pan) is a mythological image that
also denotes a mother complex connected with psychological rootlessness.

http://mlwi.magix.net/puer.htm
________________________________________________________________

Complementation in fairytales

Description: Interpretation of a fairy tale (The Golden Blackbird)
following 'psychological complementation', having to do with
augmentation of unconscious life.

http://mlwi.magix.net/blackbird.htm
________________________________________________________________

The Dark Shadow Of The Quaternity - a critique of the Jungian unitarian Self

Description: A critique of Carl Jung's Self model centering on his
dreams and visions. 'Complementation' is forwarded as counterpart to
psychological integration.

http://mlwi.magix.net/crucifixion.htm
________________________________________________________________

The Complementarian Self - the Twofold Self

Description: The psychological Self is both this-worldly and
otherworldly following the principle of complementarity. It coincides
with the theological view of Christ.

http://mlwi.magix.net/compself.htm
________________________________________________________________

The Blood Sacrifice - its symbolism and psychology

Description: Victimization is analyzed as an archaic method of ego
emancipation by which the transgressor's unconscious suffering is
transferred to the victim.

http://mlwi.magix.net/bloodsac.htm
________________________________________________________________

Symbolic Poverty - on the capacity of relating symbolically with life

Description: Absent the symbolical relation to 'dark nature' and natural
evil, Western man eschews suffering, finding appeal in idealistic
illusions of earthly welfare.

http://mlwi.magix.net/symbolic1.htm
________________________________________________________________

An intrusion of matriarchal consciousness

Description: The collective mind is reverting to matriarchal
conceptions, abandoning traditional Western values that allow for
'differences'. It leads to cultural neurosis.

http://mlwi.magix.net/matriarchal.htm
________________________________________________________________

Dependency in the analytic relationship

Description: Three cases of psychological dependency, in analysands of
C.G. Jung, are investigated. Their dreams show that personal
emancipation is pivotal.

http://mlwi.magix.net/dependency.htm
________________________________________________________________

The animistic archetypal nature of the unconscious

Description: The unconscious has an animistic structure. Therefore
Platonic Forms or Jungian archetypes are essential concepts to have
knowledge of the unconscious.

http://mlwi.magix.net/animism.htm
________________________________________________________________

The Burning Issue: Race and Racialism

Description: Racial strife continues. Research finds that racial
awareness is innate, which explains why multiculturalism and
'colour-blindness' are ineffective.

http://mlwi.magix.net/racial_problem.htm
________________________________________________________________

Insights into the Race Issue

Description: Is 'race' still relevant for understanding the human
condition? Refusal to acknowledge racial differences engenders an
unconscious ethnoracial complex.

http://mlwi.magix.net/raceinsight.htm
________________________________________________________________

Understanding European psychology

Description: The mind of the typical modern European is very much a
product of medieval times. The Middle Ages has endowed us with valuable
mental gifts.

http://mlwi.magix.net/interiority.htm
________________________________________________________________

A Critique of Feminism - on Women's Collective Shadow

Description: Women harbour a secret wish to remain in dependency,
subordinated to a strong man. It is exacerbated by the feminist call to
cast off feminine nature.

http://mlwi.magix.net/feminismcrit.htm
________________________________________________________________

Two psychoanalytic methods

Description: Psychoanalysis ought not always strive to resolve the
unconscious problem. A higher expression must instead be sought for the
'irresolvable complex'.

http://mlwi.magix.net/twoanalyses.htm
________________________________________________________________

Mysterium Iniquitatis - the mystery of evil

Description: By an archaic means of ego emancipation, the transgressor's
unconscious suffering is transferred to the victim. It aims at
ego-empowerment.

http://mlwi.magix.net/iniquitatis.htm
________________________________________________________________

Cognitive Science and the Archetypal Unconscious

Description: Can cognitive science and its notion of innate unconscious
metaphor inform Jungian psychology? Transcendental philosophy is criticized.

http://mlwi.magix.net/cognitive.htm
________________________________________________________________

Thanatos - a contribution to the understanding of the collective shadow

Description: Thanatos (the death drive) is an inner compulsion that
protects against unconscious wholeness during which the borders of
personality are dangerously dissolved.

http://mlwi.magix.net/thanatos.htm
________________________________________________________________

Complementaris Mundus - a complementarian metaphysic

Description: The world is both material and spiritual. Yet, in
accordance with the complementarity principle, it is not experiential as
a dual world.

http://mlwi.magix.net/dualmetaphysic.htm
________________________________________________________________

The real meaning of the motif of the dying god

Description: The mythic theme of the dying god depicts the mystery of
incarnation, symbolic of the propitious and liberating function of
conscious realization.

http://mlwi.magix.net/archetypes.htm
________________________________________________________________

The Unconscious Spiritual Nature

Description: What is the nature of 'spirit'? From dreams we can deduce
that it ever searches to manifest via the unconscious, through
mysterious symbol.

http://mlwi.magix.net/spiritfish.htm
________________________________________________________________

The Sphinxlike Unconscious

Description: Like the enigmatic sphinx, the unconscious is ultimately
unknowable. There is inside us a longing for archaic wholeness,
equatable with primary narcissism.

http://mlwi.magix.net/sphinx.htm
________________________________________________________________

The psychodynamics of terrorism

Description: Terrorism springs from an archaic psychic economy of sin
transference. Its connection with the death drive and the historical
blood sacrifice is discussed.

http://mlwi.magix.net/terror.htm
________________________________________________________________

Hero worship

Description: The hero archetype provides the impetus for personal
emancipation. Conflictingly, it gives rise to hubristic expansionism, to
the detriment of heartfelt values.

http://mlwi.magix.net/hero.htm
________________________________________________________________

Critique of Neo-Hegelianism

Description: Critique is directed against Hegelianism and its
continuation in Marxist and postmodern philosophy. The myth of modernity
severs our roots in the natural order.

http://mlwi.magix.net/beastrev.htm
________________________________________________________________

The penitential disease - neither psychic nor somatic?

Description: There are many handicapping illnesses that defy
explanation. It is suggested that these spring from existential stress
present in the collective unconscious psyche.

http://mlwi.magix.net/penitential.htm
________________________________________________________________

Critique of idealistic phenomenologism

Description: The philosophy of idealistic phenomenology has a
continuance in post-Jungian theory, which continues to peddle
irrationality.

http://mlwi.magix.net/romanyshyn.htm
________________________________________________________________

The Romantic Flight from Reality

Description: In 'Misinterpretation of Man', Paul Roubiczek formulates a
valuable critique of Romantic times and thought, highly topical for
today's world.

http://mlwi.magix.net/roubiczek.htm
________________________________________________________________

Critique of Archetypal Psychology

Description: James Hillman's Archetypal Psychology reinterprets the
archetype according to phenomenology and furthers an amoral and
aesthetic worldview.

http://mlwi.magix.net/hillmcrit.htm
________________________________________________________________

Winnicott's Dream - a Critique of Winnicott's Thought as a Form of
Mystical Narcissism

Description: Donald Winnicott's theory mirrors typical features of the
narcissistic disorder, such as recurrent destruction and subject-object
merger.

http://mlwi.magix.net/winni.htm
________________________________________________________________

About group narcissism

Description: Group narcissism is discussed. The notions of a 'healthy'
narcissism and a 'natural narcissistic spectrum' are criticized.

http://mlwi.magix.net/groupnarc.htm
________________________________________________________________

The Golden Blackbird

Description: An interpretation of fairy tale 'The Golden Blackbird'
according to Marie-Louise von Franz's method.

http://mlwi.magix.net/golden.htm
________________________________________________________________

A constructive critique of the structural model in psychoanalysis

Description: Critique is directed against Freud's structural model that
generalizes an Oedipal pattern. The psyche is built around many more
complexes.

http://mlwi.magix.net/compstruc.htm
________________________________________________________________

Critique of Intersubjectivity

Description: Intersubjectivity implies an involvement on the unconscious
level. But psychotherapy should not work toward a relative merger of our
conscious personalities.

http://mlwi.magix.net/intersubj.htm
________________________________________________________________

The ongoing self-destruction of psychoanalysis

Description: The theoretical chaos in psychoanalysis depends on an
insufficient metaphysical groundwork. Empirical science must be
buttressed by a metaphysical foundation.

http://mlwi.magix.net/destruc.htm
________________________________________________________________

The case of "Dora"

Description: An attempt at reinterpretation of Freud's famous case of
'Dora'.

http://mlwi.magix.net/dora.htm
________________________________________________________________

Edinger – the ego prophet

Description: In Edward F. Edinger's analysis of religious and alchemical
themes the symbolic value is depleted as symbols are subjected to
onesided intellectualization.

http://mlwi.magix.net/edeng.htm
________________________________________________________________

Psychoanalysis at the crossroad

Description: To avoid conceptual isolation, a clarification of
metapsychological assumptions is called for. Knowledge of the
unconscious belongs in public consciousness.

http://mlwi.magix.net/psychemp.htm
________________________________________________________________

Critique of Conflict Theory

Description: Charles Brenner's 'Conflict Theory' is neurotic, as such.
It cannot function as a model of the normal psyche, where conscious and
unconscious are separated.

http://mlwi.magix.net/brenner.htm
________________________________________________________________

The Limits of Science

Description: A scientific outlook requires that we accept metaphysical
postulates insufficient for creating a full-fledged worldview. Ultimate
truth must be sought within.

http://mlwi.magix.net/science.htm
________________________________________________________________

The Plastic Preachers - on inferior psychology and religion

Description: The modern collective spirit has brought forth a
personality capable of transforming any genuine subject matter into
plastic. These are the false preachers.

http://mlwi.magix.net/plastic.htm
________________________________________________________________

The Morphic Deception

Description: Pseudoscientific New Age philosophy, advanced by thinkers
such as Rupert Sheldrake and Ken Wilber, is a blind alley in the world
of theory.

http://mlwi.magix.net/sheldrake.htm
________________________________________________________________

Creativity - the unconscious source of the creative spirit

Description: There exists an unconscious form of creativity that
complements our daytime activity -- a spiritual power that ever searches
to manifest itself in human life.

http://mlwi.magix.net/creativity.htm
________________________________________________________________

Rock Music Lyric Interpretation

Description: An attempt at interpretation of rock lyrics: 'The Hill and
Hibiscus Flowers' by Steve Harley.

http://mlwi.magix.net/the_hill.htm
________________________________________________________________

Colour is objective mind - the grass really is green and the heavens
really are blue

Description: Critique is directed against lingering philosophical
Idealism and its counterpart, namely rationalistic physicalism.

http://mlwi.magix.net/objcolour.htm
________________________________________________________________