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Whitehead and Grof: Resolving the Ontological Ambiguity of Jung's Archetypes Metaphysically and Practically

August 14, 2009 L. Gibson

MacIntyre (Encyclopedia of Philosophy, p. 296) voices two representative philosophical criticisms of Jung’s theorizing: (1) the existence of the collective unconscious cannot be decided by any possible observation or experiment, and (2) ontological claims about the contents of the psyche are ambiguous. Jung states, “The content of the collective unconscious is made up essentially of...