Max Weber described modern culture as characterised by capitalism, rationalisation, disenchantment, subjectivist culture, and democratisation. Where Weber described and explained the disenchantment of the modern world, Jung actively sought to remedy it through bringing about a re-enchantment, and one of the principal ways in which he tried to do this was through his theory of myth. Briefly,...
This chapter looks at some factors possibly inhibiting the interdisciplinary engagement of analytical psychology with academic sociology. It addresses the issue by considering C. G. Jung’s response to a situation with which both disciplines have been deeply concerned: the disenchantment of the modern world. Synchronicity, as the technical term that Jung developed to articulate the transcendence...