Voices of the rational and aesthetic in Jung: thermodynamics resonating into complexity

Abstract

ABSTRACTJung's writing displays many perspectives, each of which is undergirded by a distinct set of assumptions, style of language, and sensibility of world and psyche. This paper traces some of these perspectives with an eye toward showing how the contemporary cutting edge science of complexity, in fact, is anticipated by and embodied in Jung's work, especially that which gives expression to the psyche as an aesthetic enterprise, particularly alchemy.