1st Edition
The Paradoxical Meeting of Depth Psychology and Physics Reflections on the Unification of Psyche and Matter
1 The Ordering Role of Mathematics
When Priests were Mathematicians
End of the Correspondence Principle
Return of the Correspondence Principle
2 The Creative Source of the Inner and Outer Worlds
The Inner World
The Outer World
A Concluding Dream
3 Mathematics of the Ring i
The Unbounded Three
The Bounded Four
4 Complementarity and Paradox in Quantum Physics
The Quantum Quaternio
The Copenhagen Interpretation
5 Complementarity and Paradox in Analytical Psychology
The Just View of Paradox
Pauli’s Paradoxical Attitude
6 Pauli and the Ring i
You Know What Rotation Is!
The H-Atom and the Four Eggs that are One
Seeking the Unity of Inner and Outer
7 Pauli’s Fantasy of Die Klavierstunde
The Ring i as a Symbol of Wholeness
The Unus Mundus as Third Stage of the Coniunctio
8 The Ring i as Rotating Mandala
The Paradoxical Mandalic Attitude
Blue Tongue Lizard
9 Dance of the Three and the Four
Dance of the Diagonals
The Three and the Four Remain a Problem
10 In Conclusion - Resolving the Split World View
Unus Mundus is the Mirror
The Impossible Centre of the Ring i
List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Index
Biography
Robert S. Matthews is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Adelaide, Australia and a Swiss trained Jungian analyst.
