Dr. Joseph Cambray: Synchronicity, Individuation, and the Psychoid Imagination: Towards Re-enchantment

Dr. Joe Cambray

Synchronicity, Individuation, and the Psychoid Imagination: Towards Re-enchantment

We will begin by reviewing the experiences which lead to Jung’s formulation of “individuation” as the goal of analytic work. This will be followed by exploring the origins of his conception of synchronicity followed by his ultimate reading of archetypes in terms of the "psychoid." A contemporary re-visioning of these ideas through the application of complexity theory will provide a link to a new emerging paradigm for understanding our reality, opening to the possibility of re-enchantment of the world.  The role of the psychoid layer of archetypal reality will be highlighted as it pertains to recent research in ecological systems as well as certain artistic traditions.  Examples from several fields will guide us towards the articulation of the psychoid imagination as central to this new vision.

Joe Cambray, Ph.D. is Past-President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology and past President of Pacifica Graduate Institute. He has served as the U.S. Editor for The Journal of Analytical Psychology and is on various editorial boards and was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies. Dr. Cambray is also former President of the C. G. Jung Institute of Boston and a Jungian analyst now living in the Santa Barbara area of California. His numerous publications include the book based on his Fay Lectures: Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe, a newly edited volume, with Leslie Sawin, Research in Analytical Psychology: Applications from Scientific, Historical, and (Cross)-Cultural Research and a volume edited with Linda Carter, Analytical Psychology: Contemporary Perspectives in Jungian Psychology.