ABSTRACT
‘The Chinese mind, as I see it at work in the I Ching’, writes Jung, ‘seems to be exclusively preoccupied with the chance aspects of events.’ 1 In his analysis of the differences between the Chinese and Western minds, Jung finds the Chinese to be interested less in causal logic than in the overdeterminations of life: ‘The moment under actual observation appears to the ancient Chinese view more of a chance hit than a clearly defined result of concurrent causal chains’. According to Jung, the Chinese concept of the moment necessitates portrayal of the ‘minutest nonsensical detail, because all of the ingredients make up the observed moment.’
