![]() ![]() Legge’s translation of the I Ching, up to now the only version available in English, has done little to make the work accessible to Western minds.Wilhelm, however, has made every effort to open the way to an understanding of the symbolism of the text. But this is far from being the case, for there is so much that is obscure about it that Western scholars have tended to dispose of it as a collection of “magic spells,” either too abstruse to be intelligible, or of no value whatsoever. If the meaning of the Book of Changes were easy to grasp, the work would need no foreword. He himself was profoundly aware of the cultural significance of his translation of the I Ching, a version unrivaled in the West. It also affords me a welcome opportunity to pay tribute again to the memory of my late friend, Richard Wilhelm. Since I am not a sinologue, a foreword to the Book of Changes from my hand must be a testimonial of my individual experience with this great and singular book. Since the latter is a merely statistical truth and not absolute, it is a sort of working hypothesis of how events evolve one out of another, whereas synchronicity takes the coincidence of events in space and time as meaning something more than mere chance, namely, a peculiar interdependence of objective events among themselves as well as with the subjective (psychic) states of the observer or observers. This assumption involves a certain curious principle that I have termed synchronicity, a concept that formulates a point of view diametrically opposed to that of causality. Collected Works Volume 4 – Freud & Psychoanalysis.Collected Works Volume 3 – Psychogenesis of Mental Disease.Collected Works Volume 15 – Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature. ![]() Collected Works Volume 16 – Practice of Psychotherapy.Collected Works Volume 8 – Structure & Dynamics of the Psyche.Collected Works Volume 10 – Civilization in Transition.Collected Works Volume 9(1) – Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious.Collected Works Volume 2: Experimental Researches.Collected Works Volume 1 Psychiatric Studies.Collected Works Volume 14 – Mysterium Coniunctionis.Collected Works Volume 9 (2) – Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self.Collected Works Volume 18 – The Symbolic Life.Collected Works Volume 17 – Development of Personality.Collected Works Volume 13 – Alchemical Studies.Collected Works Volume 12 – Psychology and Alchemy.Collected Works Volume 11 – Psychology and Religion: West and East.Collected Works Volume 7 – Two Essays on Analytical Psychology. ![]()
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