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- Title
TEILHARD AND JUNG: A Cosmic and Psychic Convergence.
- Authors
Vilas, Franklin E.
- Abstract
In this essay, I have attempted to demonstrate how the thought and writings of Teilhard and Jung converge. In their common interpretation of matter and psyche they saw the interior as well as the exterior role of the process of evolution. Their concepts of libido and radial energy led them to an understanding of the collective nature of the human psyche, and its expansion in culture as the noosphere. Common understandings of the archetypes of evil and of the feminine resulted in affirmation of the interior, spiritual drive underlying human nature, with a valuation of the Christ image for Western culture in its cosmic dimension through Jung's archetype of the Self and Teilhard's Omega Point. Their common vision, emerging from the struggles of the 20th century, has yet to be appreciated in its application to the world of the twentyfirst.
- Subjects
EVOLUTIONARY theories; TEILHARD de Chardin, Pierre, 1881-1955; JUNG, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961; ARCHETYPE (Psychology); JESUS Christ
- Publication
Teilhard Studies, 2008, Issue 56, p1
- ISSN
0739-2303
- Publication type
Article