ABSTRACT
Throughout his work, Jung stressed that modern man disengages from access to spiritual life at great peril. He considered that much symptomatology and psychic suffering at both the individual and collective levels were the consequences of this dislocation from the sources of spiritual life, individually and collectively. Over and again in the Collected Works, Jung referred to himself as a scientist and empiricist, and thus that his scientific orientation fitted into the prevalent scientific paradigm. The theory of emergent properties, also known as emergence theory, closely related to complexity theory and chaos theory, has recently developed as a tool in understanding how, across all matter, a deep structural dynamic at the edge of chaos, is at work in which order, pattern, and, psychologically speaking, systems of meaning threaten to break down into chaos. Jungian analyst David Tresan began Jungian reflection on emergence theory in an important paper linking archetypal and neurobiological theory.
