ABSTRACT
Carl Gustav Jung developed the concept of synchronicity in order to provide a theoretical framework that might help us to deal with those strange and apparently inexplicable facts that defy the classical categories of time, space, and causality. Causality versus synchronicity, historical reality versus physical reality, these opposites help us towards an awareness of the essential dialectics of all events and processes. Where there is much unconsciousness, synchronicity is either denied, or else it provokes fascination. The author makes clearer the intricacy of the pattern that exists between synchronicity and the transference-counter-transference situation by giving some examples—two of her own, and one from a paper by Mary Williams. Michael Fordham supports Jung’s belief that ‘synchronicity depends upon a relatively unconscious state of mind, i.e. on an ‘abaissement du niveau mental: He describes the misadventures of one of his patients in an ocean boat race.
