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Synchronicity: C.G. Jung, Psychoanalysis, and Religion
- Type
- Book
- By
- Robert Aziz
- Publisher
- State University of New York Press
- Source
- SUNY Press
- Published
- 1990
A scholarly reconstruction of how synchronicity grew out of Jung's psychology and his engagement with religion, written for an academic audience.
Robert Aziz's Synchronicity: C.G. Jung, Psychoanalysis, and Religion (1990) is the rigorous academic reconstruction of where the idea came from. Aziz shows that synchronicity was not a late-life oddity but a natural outgrowth of Jung's psychology and his lifelong engagement with religious experience.
This is intellectual history of a high order, and it is often the first stop for university work on the subject. Its limits are the limits of its genre: it demonstrates how the idea fits together, not that it describes reality. For readers who want to understand synchronicity on its own terms before judging it, Aziz is indispensable.
The meaning
Aziz shows synchronicity is not a late-life oddity but a natural outgrowth of Jung's core ideas about the self.
The skeptic
It is careful history of an idea, not a demonstration that the idea describes reality.
About the author
Jungian analyst and psychotherapist who wrote one of the most rigorous academic treatments of the concept.
Key takeaways
- Traces synchronicity's roots in Jung's psychology and religious thought.
- A rigorous academic treatment, often cited in university work.
- Best for readers who want the intellectual history, not the stories.