The ‘Psychological’ and the ‘Spiritual’: An Evolutional Relationship within an Ontological Framework. A Brief Comment on Jung’s ‘Self’

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2. Original titleThe ‘Psychological’ and the ‘Spiritual’: An Evolutional Relationship within an Ontological Framework. A Brief Comment on Jung’s ‘Self’
3. Language term English
4. lemma author Delli, Eudoxie
5. lemma category Co-existence - Key thinkers - Orthodox theological tradition and practice > Cult and spirituality - Scientific theories and disciplines > Psychology-Psychoanalysis
6. Publication date 10-11-2018
7. lemma work Tympas, Grigorios Chrysostom [Author]. The ‘Psychological’ and the ‘Spiritual’: An Evolutional Relationship within an Ontological Framework. A Brief Comment on Jung’s ‘Self’
8. lemma manifestations International Journal of Jungian Studies
9. Keywords Jung, Carl - St. Maximus the Confessor - Phenomenology - conceptions of the Self - transdisciplinarity - Wilfred Ruprecht Bion - the ‘spiritual’
10. Citations
    1. <p>Tympas, G. C. (2013). The ‘Psychological’ and the ‘Spiritual’: An Evolutional Relationship within an Ontological Framework. A Brief Comment on Jung’s ‘Self’. <em>International Journal of Jungian Studies</em>,<em> </em> <em>5 /3, </em>193-210.</p> <p><em> </em></p>
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    1. In his article, Father Grigorios Chr. Tympas attempts to articulate an ‘evolutional’ approach to the spiritual as an ‘emergent’ property arising from multiple factors beyond the psychological and the metaphysical, namely, within the socio-cultural and the metaphysical realms, precisely because certain aspects of the psyche’s spiritual dimension unfold in these levels. By distinguishing the parameters at those realms that shape spiritual development, a much clearer picture of the manifestations and potentialities of the spiritual could be obtained. Ontological and phenomenological approaches, alongside certain principles that function as interpretative tools in the social sciences (e.g., reductionism, teleology), can be synthesized to construct a pluralistic methodology for understanding anew the dynamics between the ‘psychological’ and the ‘spiritual’. Furthermore, concepts of a principally psychological nature, such as Jung’s Self/God-image, could reveal new potentialities when juxtaposed and analyzed through notions belonging to different than psychological levels (such as Giddens’ ‘ontological security’, Weber's meta-empirical faith in the validity of supreme values, Hegel’s ‘absolute’, Karl Popper's world 3 products). Theories engaging an amalgam of ontological and phenomenological features, such as Maximus’ understanding of psychic development through both intra- and extra-psychic perspectives, could substantially contribute to a holistic understanding of the spiritual or the Self.