A Graphical Approach to Understanding a Mechanism of Synchronicity by Mirror Archetype against the Background of the Psychic Correspondence Principle

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  • SUDA Hitoshi
    Liberal Arts Education Center, Shimizu Campus, Tokai University

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  • 「心的対応原理」の背景に基づく鏡元型による共時性のメカニズムを理解するための図解的アプローチ

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<p>In this work, I investigate a mechanism of synchronicity and view a novel aspect of that using a graphical method as a clue, with two diagrams illustrated by Hayao Kawai. To achieve this purpose, the psychic correspondence principle, which means a kind of parallelism between the physical world and the psychic world and is entirely unrelated to the correspondence principle in early quantum theory, is heuristically employed as a hypothesis. First, Kawai’s treatment in therapy is due to a synchronistic method that is represented well by his diagram; its validity or plausibility is verified by carefully examining the correspondence relation between his symbolical diagram and a useful experimental system in the physical world. Second, Kawai illustrated a useful diagram to summarize Ira Progoff’s features of synchronicity. It is shown that a novel face of synchronicity is isolated by assuming and analyzing a correspondence relation between this diagram and very useful Feynman diagrams in elementary particle physics, in which the two diagrams are integrated by Suda’s diagram including psychic mirrors (or mirror archetypes). Since the correspondence relation is not always an absolute principle, the validity of the obtained results is elucidated by examining the degree of coincidence with clinical cases beyond a reductive view to isolate an essence, i.e., it is not a quantitative understanding but rather a qualitative understanding. A main conclusion in the present study is that the “field” emerged from the “body” may generate a particle-like image (or meaning). As an interesting role of the body (like the duality of light), it is shown that spirit and matter continue contiguously with the body, which seems to function as an “interface” between them.</p>

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