ABSTRACT
Max Weber described modern culture as characterised by capitalism, rationalisation, disenchantment, subjectivist culture, and democratisation. Where Weber described and explained the disenchantment of the modern world, Jung actively sought to remedy it through bringing about a re-enchantment, and one of the principal ways in which he tried to do this was through his theory of myth. Briefly, synchronicity describes and theorises coincidences in which, for example, a person’s dream or thought is matched by something that happens in the outer world, without it being possible that either event could have caused the other. Jung related a shorter version of the same incident the following year in his essay “Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle”. Synchronicity, as the technical term that Jung developed to articulate this transcendence of space, time, and causality, thus implicitly describes what for Jung is the kernel of numinous or religious experience.
