ABSTRACT
Jung’s Collected Works can be read as feminist novels. As such they re-story the feminine, incarnate Dionysus and anticipate transdisciplinarity. The Collected Works are novels because they foster many voices. Such tricky writing is the new home of animism, a spirituality allied to a goddess of divine earth, sexuality, body and pluralism rather than dualism. Such an expansive feminine includes what Jung calls feeling and connection as Eros, the trickster androgynous plurality, and nature as “her” complex creativity that he named synchronicity.
As James Hillman diagnosed, Jung the feminist novelist is Dionysian in enacting dismemberment into parts. These parts are aware of themselves as parts with an emphasis on embodied consciousness. Jung’s trickster and animistic writing here is the dispersed corporeality of the ecstatic god. Taking this unlikely feminist Jung further, we may consider his writing as proto-transdisciplinary. The transdisciplinarity of Basarab Nicolescu in which the hidden third is invoked is written in the Jungian symbol.
Above all, the Jungian symbol occupies what transdisciplinarity calls the logic of the included middle between subject and object. Transdisciplinarity adopts Jung’s project of restoring what has been excluded as feminine and taking it into a cultural-epistemological project that can provide a transreligious and transcultural future.
