Number and time

Subtitle:
Reflections leading toward a unification of depth psychology and physics

Series Title:
Studies in Jungian thought

Author:
Franz, Marie-Louise von 1915-1998

Editor:
Hillman, James 1926-2011 (General Editor)

Translator:
Dykes, Andrea

Place of Publication:
Evanston, Illinois

Publisher:
Northwestern University Press


ISBN / SBN / ISSN:
810104296

Media Type:
Print (Non-Serial)

Media Sub-type:
Book

Copy:
3

LoC Call Number:
BF 173 .F61 5513 1974 c.3

Accession Number:
081224

Keyword Subject Headings:
Number--Psychological aspects
Time--Psychological aspects
Synchronicity (Psychology)
Symbolism (Psychology)
Jung, C.G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961
Mind and body

User Notes:
Hardback, xii + 332 pp. including a bibliography and index. Translation of Zahl und Zeit. Contents: Part I: Number as the common ordering factor of psyche and matter Chp. 1 The problem of the unity of psyche and matter Chp. 2 Images and mathematical structures in relation to the Unus Mundus Chp. 3 Number as the basic manifestation of the mind and as the unalterable quality of matter Part II: The structure of the first four integers Chp. 4 Number as a time-bound quality of the one-continuum Chp. 5 The number two as the one-continuum's rhythm by which symmetries and observables are engendered Chp. 6 The number three as a rhythmic configuration of progressive actualizations in human consciousness and the material realm Chp. 7 The number four as the one-continuum's model of wholeness in all relatively closed structures of human consciousness and in the body Part III: The field of the collective unconscious and its inner dynamism Chp. 8 Archetypes and numbers as "fields" of unfolding rhythmical sequences Chp. 9 Numbers as isomorphic configurations of motion in psychic and physical energy Part IV: Historical and mathematical models of the Unus Mundus Chp. 10 Historical mandala models as inner psychic equivalents of the Unus Mundus Chp. 11 Divinatory, mnemotechnical, and cybernetic mandalas Chp. 12 The archetype of the number-game as the basis of probability theory and number oracles Part V: Number and the parapsychological aspects of the principle of synchronicity Chp. 13 Number, time, and synchronicity Chp. 14 The Unus Mundus as the world of the spirit and "spirits" Chp. 15 Synchronicity and the Coniunctio Summary and outlook