ABSTRACT
Synchronicity is one of C. G. Jung conceptual inventions. It is a way of thinking about irrational data; it penetrates and orders total situations. Synchronicity is an extension of his position. It is indeed a means of studying meaningful, uncaused subject-object relationships. Once it becomes apparent that no cause is conceivable, the sense of purposive behaviour on the part of objects is important because, Jung says, it gives affective processes in the unconscious a chance to express themselves. Jung clearly believed he was observing a common event which was usually unconscious. There is a correspondence between the external event and the archetype itself, which becomes manifest in meaningful relations with the material object in the external world. It appears certain that it is the archetypal imagery which makes the correspondence meaningful, but the synchronicity is essentially the correspondence and is not produced by the projected archetypal image.
