ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 considers paradigms framing research and pervading the culture. It includes Lee Bailey’s The Enchantments of Technology on how the subject/object split has had a magical and unconscious-inducing effect on modernity. This argument continues in Chapters 5 and 6 on The Nuclear Enchantment of New Mexico by Joel Weishaus. Arts-based research provides a new paradigm. Combined with Jungian theories of individuation, synchronicity and archetypes, Jungian arts-based research can tackle the toxic unconsciousness produced by reifying the subject/object split as the way to judge, evaluate and research reality. Also addressing this problem, Basarab Nicolescu’s transdisciplinarity proves to have been implied in Jung, including Jung’s synchronicity. I argue that in Jung’s synchronicity is buried a lost goddess of the long-marginalized paradigm of animism, Earth Goddess and ecology. Additionally, precedent for Jungian arts-based research is to be found in alchemy, itself a discourse combining religion, science and art. Jung shows that modern arts-based research is a rediscovery of alchemy. Jung provides ungroundedness for structuralist directions in arts-based research and also anticipates a/r/tography, as devised by Rita Irwin. A study of the transdisciplinary paradigm for Jungian arts-based research precedes Jung on James Joyce’s Ulysses in enacting it.
