HUMAN WHOLENESS IN LIGHT OF FIVE TYPES OF PSYCHIC DUALITY

Michael Washburn; Michael Washburn

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9744.1987.tb00838.x

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HUMAN WHOLENESS IN LIGHT OF FIVE TYPES OF PSYCHIC DUALITY

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Abstract. Five types of psychic duality are distinguished: bipolarity, bimodality, contrariety, dualism, and the coincidentia op–positorurn. Bipolarity is the basic division of the psyche into egoic and nonegoic (physico–dynamic) poles. Bimodality is the division of egoic functioning into active and receptive modes. Contrariety is the division of the nonegoic sphere into opposing sympathetic and parasympathetic systems. Dualism is the organization imposed upon the bipolar structure by primal repression. And the coincidentia opositorum is the condition of psychic integration that would emerge were dualism to be transcended and the bipolar structure (together with the bimodal and contrarietal structures) unified into a higher whole.

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coincidence of opposites, wholeness, neurological correlates, duality, psychic integration

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Washburn, M., (1987) “HUMAN WHOLENESS IN LIGHT OF FIVE TYPES OF PSYCHIC DUALITY”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 22(1), 67–85. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.1987.tb00838.x

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Volume 22 • Issue 1 • March 1987

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Pages	67–85

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Published	1987-03-02

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