The syndetic paradigm : the untrodden path beyond Freud and Jung

334 Pages·2007·0.932 MB·English

by  Freud, Sigmund, Aziz, Robert, Jung, Jung Carl Gustav

THE SYNDETIC PARADIGM
THE UNTRODDEN PATH BEYOND FREUD AND JUNG
robert aziz
THE SYNDETIC PARADIGM
SUNY T H P
SERIESIN RANSPERSONALAND UMANISTIC SYCHOLOGY
R D. M ,
ICHARD ANN EDITOR
THE SYNDETIC PARADIGM
T U P B F J
HE NTRODDEN ATH EYOND REUD AND UNG
R A
OBERT ZIZ
S U N Y P
TATE NIVERSITYOF EW ORK RESS
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Aziz, Robert, 1954–
The syndetic paradigm : the untrodden path beyond Freud and Jung /
Robert Aziz.
p. cm. — (SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN–13:978–0–7914–6981–1 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN–13: 978–0–7914–6982–8 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Freud, Sigmund, 1856–1939. 2. Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875–1961.
3. Psychoanalysis. I. Title. II. Series.
BF173.F85A95 2007
150.19′52—dc22
2006007842
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
For my wife, Marguerite, and our sons,
Nicholas and Jonathan

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
I Self-Organizing Nature 23
II Nature’s Intrinsic Morality 77
III Sexual Alchemy 121
IV The Empty Mandala 195
Notes 295
Bibliography 309
Index 315
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
As with my first book, this work has been the product of many years of re-
search and reflection. Unlike my first book, however, I can say that this
work would not have come into being but for the sincere developmental
strivings of my analysands. By way of their journeys from unconsciousness
to consciousness, from the meaningless to the meaningful, passing through
personal, transpersonal and, most importantly, cultural reality planes, the
vision of this work was given life. My analysands, in this regard, are its co-
creators. It is with deep gratitude, therefore, that I acknowledge the gift of
their effort and their belief, in the most conscious sense of that word, much
as I am no less inclined to acknowledge the effort and belief of those who
have yet to carry this work further still into life.
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