ABSTRACT
Enantiodromia took place in the positivistic bloc through the transition from the mechanistic–deterministic conception of nature to the systemic one. The conception of causality was once again modified through the chaos theory, particularly the discovery of the fact that the laws of nature are not linear. It became increasingly obvious that, with most processes of nature, it is not possible to take into consideration the totality of all marginal conditions. The other component of the deterministic–mechanistic conception of nature—the mechanistic view of living reality—was overcome by the emergence of the notion “system”. The paradigm was discovered almost at the same time as the unconscious. The notion “unconscious” is perfectly suited to european modern conception of nature, although, in the very beginning of depth psychology, it seemed to be outside the field of natural sciences. The positivistic–materialistic self-concept, however, supposes that the only mental reality in the world is human reason, the phenomenon call consciousness.
