ABSTRACT
In adopting “the unconscious” as its foundational principle, psychoanalysis has been uniquely placed to uphold a position that would seek to give expression to the soul’s telos. In seeking to extend psychoanalytic thinking so as to engage more thoughtfully with “non-ordinary” states of consciousness, it is necessary to acknowledge the extent to which such experiences can appear to dissolve the barrier between knower and known. Via the theorizing of intersubjectivity and enactment, it is the psychoanalytic mainstream that offers the possibility of more thoroughly explicating and integrating the implicit clinical importance of Jung’s ideas about synchronicity. Conceptions of psychoanalysis within transpersonal circles often remain mired in the past, and direct engagement with the contemporary Jungian movement is markedly absent. Jungian psychology underscores that spiritual and religious concerns cannot be considered distinct from psychological ones.
