| Thomas Elsner, JD, MA
The Symbolic Life of Inner and Outer Nature
The contemporary ecologist and depth psychologist have something in common. They mourn the loss of an erotic, reciprocal interaction with non-human reality. This loss, whether it is expressed as separation from nature
tends to experience erotic reciprocity in non-human nature, the depth psychologist in non-human psyche, but both experiences are symbolic and archetypal and the distinction between them is not absolute. This short pre
certain statements by psychologist C.G. Jung and ecologist David Abram to illustrate these points.
Thomas Elsner, JD, MA is a Jungian Analyst trained in Switzerland at the Research and Training Center for Depth Psychology according to C.G. Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz. He is a faculty member of the C.G. Jun
forthcoming book is entitled, The Night-Sea Voyage of Coleridge's Ancient Mariner: The Circuitous Journey of Individuation.Andrew Fellows, PhD
PsychEcology: Gaia meets Anima Mundi
"PsychEcology" proposes and explores a metaphor of world as psyche through a synthesis of Gaia theory (biosphere as self-regulating soma) and Jungian psychology (psyche as self-regulating bounded totality). This reoriginal
framework for enquiry into our estrangement from "nature within and nature without" in contemporary terms. Why have we, especially through political and religious fundamentalism, become so indifferent to the na
environmental-ism itself escape such destructive hubris? What are the roles of individual action and collective policy? What are the implications of a global monoculture? Above all, what, if any, is the connection between
or even valued, without the other? Clearly the metaphor of psychecology suggests not. This is brought down to earth with brief examples from the climate change negotiating table, the therapeutic practice room and, abov
Andrew Fellows is completing his Zurich training as a Jungian analyst at ISAP, previously at the C G Jung Institute. He holds a Doctorate in applied physics, and has two decades of professional experience in technical, |