The Syndetic Paradigm

The Untrodden Path Beyond Freud and Jung

Robert Aziz

• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780791469828, 9780791469811
• eBook ISBN: 9780791480618
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychoanalysis
• Index: Psychology

Offers a new theoretical paradigm that goes beyond the limitations of Freudian and Jungian psychological models.

In The Syndetic Paradigm, Robert Aziz argues that the Jungian Paradigm is a deeply flawed theoretical model that falls short of its promise. Aziz offers in its stead what he calls the Syndetic Paradigm. In contrast to the Jungian Paradigm, the Syndetic Paradigm takes the critical theoretical step of moving from a closed-system model of a self-regulatory psyche to an open-system model of a psyche in a self-organizing totality. The Syndetic Paradigm, in this regard, holds that all of life is bound together in a highly complex whole through an ongoing process of spontaneous self-organization. The new theoretical model that emerges in Aziz's work, while taking up the fundamental concerns of its Freudian and Jungian predecessors with psychology, ethics, spirituality, sexuality, politics, and culture, conducts us to an experience of meaning that altogether exceeds their respective bounds.

Table of contents

• THE SYNDETIC PARADIGM
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• 1. SELF-ORGANIZING NATURE
• 2. NATURE’S INTRINSIC MORALITY
• 3. SEXUAL ALCHEMY
• 4. THE EMPTY MANDALA
• NOTES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX