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Volume 10: Number 3: Article 4
Archetypes, Neurognosis and the Quantum Sea
Charles D. Laughlin, Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology, Carleton
University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6
C.G. Jung left a great deal of ambiguity surrounding the ontological
status of the archetypes and the collective unconscious. He did so because
of the inadequacy of the science of his day. Modern developments in
the neurosciences and quantum physics — especially the new physics of
the vacuum — allow us to develop Jung's understanding of the archetypes
further. This paper analyzes the salient characteristics of Jung's concept
of the archetype and uses modern biogenetic structural theory to integrate
archetypal psychology and the neurosciences. The paper reviews some
of the evidence in favor of direct neurophysiological- quantum coupling
and suggests how neural processing and quantum events may interpenetrate.
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