Conforti, Michael

Field, form, and fate; patterns in mind, nature, and psyche - Woodstock, CT Spring Pub. c1999 - xv, 144p.; bibliog. - (Seminar series: 18) .

Introduction. 1 Deja vu all over again; repetition in the psyche and the natural world. 2 Patterns in psyche and nature. 3 An archetypal field theory. 4 Archetypal patterns. 5 Replicative patterns; an archetypal perspective. 6 The generation of form; the emergence of matter from psyche. 7 From form to chaos to higher form. 8 From reductionism to induction; shifting the paradigm. 9 Further dimensions of confluence

'This book...draws on findings from the sciences and the work of C. G. Jung to discuss the archetypal dynamics of self-organization as it applies to the individual psyche and the natural world. My position is that Jung's theory of the archetype is the psychological parallel to the scientific theory of self-organizing dynamics in nature.' --Intro.

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Archetype (Psychology)
Pattern perception
Self-organizing systems
Jungian psychology

BF 175.5.A72 C66 1999