There are many theories of what the mind is and how it works, dating back to Plato, Aristotle and other Ancient Greek philosophers. Pre-scientific theories, which were rooted in theology, concentrated on the relationship between the mind and the soul, the supposed supernatural or divine essence of the human person. Modern theories, based on a scientific understanding of the brain, see the mind as a phenomenon of psychology, and the term is often used ...

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ARCHETYPES: (EF) Extremely basic forms within the human psyche; the archaic "racial memories." Refer to the works of Dr.Carl Jung.

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Xenogears' gameplay format is standard for console RPGs: the main characters advance the plot by traversing the game's world, which includes cities in the sky, vast deserts, and arcane ruins. Throughout the game, various characters who have different strengths and weaknesses join the main protagonist, Fei Fong Wong, in his journey. Battles are turn-based; the player chooses the party's fighting moves by pressing a combination of buttons that correspond to strong, moderate, and weak attacks. These attack combinations are limited ...

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Xenogears - Summary. Xenogears' plot centers around protagonist Fei Fong Wong, an eighteen-year-old male who was mysteriously brought to his current home, Lahan, by a "Masked Man" three years prior. Because of the events surrounding his arrival at the village, Fei has no apparent memories of his childhood; the rediscovery of past events, both pleasant and torturous, prevails throughout the game. In the beginning, the player is introduced to a peaceful village, but, in RPG tradition, disaster occurs when th ...

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Graphically, Xenogears combines 2D sprite characters with 3D environments. The environments and Gears (the game's mecha) are principally all created within the 3D engine, but the characters are created using low resolution 2D sprites. In addition to these things, Xenogears also utilizes both traditional Japanese cel-animated scenes and pre-rendered CGI movie clips during emotive or important plot points—a trait that was common in Squaresoft RPGs during this gaming era. Another commonly-lauded aspect of Xenogears is the ...

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The archetype is also a concept of psychologist Carl Gustav Jung. In this context, archetypes are innate prototypes for ideas, which may subsequently become involved in the interpretation of observed phenomena. A group of memories and interpretations closely associated with an archetype is called a complex, and may be named for its central archetype (e.g. "mother complex"). Jung often seemed to view the archetypes as sort of psychological organs, directly analogous to our physical, bodily organs: both being morphological givens for the speci ...

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Two early western interpretations of Kundalini were supplied by C.W. Leadbeater (1847-1934), of the Theosophical Society, and the Analytical Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961). Jung's seminar on Kundalini yoga, presented to the Psychological Club in Zurich in 1932, has been widely regarded as a milestone in the psychological understanding of Eastern thought and of the symbolic transformations of inner peace. Kundalini yoga presented Jung with a model for the developmental phases of higher consciousness, and he interpreted its sym ...

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Besides the anthropologist's reason — better understanding of a particular culture in its own terms, that is, for the purposes of cultural anthropology — there are very varied reasons behind the interest of the mythographer. The origins of Greek drama were the immediate cause of the rise of the myth-ritual school, of Jane Harrison, Gilbert Murray and others. Karl Kerenyi, also involved in Greek mythology, was an associate of Carl Jung, who adopted mythol ...

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Bastian is remembered as one of the pioneers of the concept of the 'psychic unity of mankind' -- the idea that all humans shared a basic mental framework. This became the basis of notions of cultural relativism and influenced Carl Jung's idea of the collective unconscious. He also argued that the world was divided up into difference 'geographical provinces' and that each of these provinces moved through the same stages of evolutionary development. According to Bastian, innovations and culture traits tended not to diffuse across areas. Rather ...

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transpersonal psychology (transpersonal counseling, transpersonal counseling psychology): Combination of Jungian psychology, psychosynthesis, and Eastern mysticism. It emphasizes meditation, prayer, and self-transcendence.

Carl Jung (see Jungian psychology) was the first to use the expression transpersonal (ueberpersoenlich), in 1917. Psychiatrist Stanislav Grof, the codeveloper of Holotropic Breathwork, coined the name transpersonal psychology.

(See also: Transpersonal psychology, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

ENERGY BALANCING

Is the art and practice of realigning, balancing, and re-attuning the body’s electro-magnetic energy field, in relation with the subtle bodies. Everything in creation is energy, and we, as energy, relate to it harmoniously or inharmoniously depending upon the degree to which we are in a balanced state of harmony within ourselves. It is preferable to “flow” with these energies and enjoy the state of “synchronicity” described by Carl Jung.

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somasynthesis: Form of somatic therapy developed by Clyde W. Ford, D.C. Somasynthesis borrows from theories developed by Roberto Assagioli (see psychosynthesis), Milton Erickson (see Ericksonian Hypnosis), Carl Jung (see Jungian psychology), Daniel Palmer (the founder of chiropractic), and Wilhelm Reich (see orgone therapy and Reichian Therapy). Its design is to promote physical, emotional, and spiritual health.

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Carl Jung used the term "rhizome", also calling it a "myzel", to emphasize the invisible and underground nature of life: Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above the ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away—an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost the sense of something tha ...

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Camille Paglia - Influences on Paglia's work. Scholars, critics and other writers whose work has strongly influenced Paglia's thought included: Gaston Bachelard Simone de Beauvoir Harold Bloom Brigid Brophy Norman O. Brown Kenneth Clark Patrick Dennis Leslie Fiedler James George Frazer Sigmund Freud Germaine Greer Jane Ellen Harrison Carl Jung G. Wilson Knight D. H. LawrenceSee also:

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Freud has been influential in two related, but distinct ways. He simultaneously developed a theory of the human mind and human behavior, and clinical techniques for attempting to help neurotics. Sigmund Freud - Early work. A lesser known interest of Freud's was neurology. He was an early researcher on the topic of cerebral palsy, then known as "cerebral paralysis". He published several medical papers on the topic. He also showed that the disease existed far before other researchers in his day began to noti ...

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Following the electoral success of the Labour Party in 1945, Brome turned his hand to biography writing. Fittingly, his first subject was the new Prime Minister: Clement Attlee. He went on to receive some critical and commercial success with his second work, H.G. Wells in 1950. Brome went on to chronicle the lives of such men as Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Frank Harris, and Havelock Ellis to wide acclaim. Two of his literary works, The Surgeon and The Embassy, were international bestsellers. However, his works were not always treated so kindly by critics; his biography o ...

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Freud has been influential in two related, but distinct ways. He simultaneously developed a theory of the human mind and human behavior, and clinical techniques for attempting to help neurotics. Sigmund Freud - Early work. A lesser known interest of Freud's was neurology. He was an early researcher on the topic of cerebral palsy, then known as "cerebral paralysis". He published several medical papers on the topic. He also showed that the disease existed far before other researchers in his day began to noti ...

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This is a partial list of patients whose case studies were published by Freud, with pseudonyms substituted for their names: Anna O. = Bertha Pappenheim (1859 - 1936) Cäcilie M. = Anna von Lieben Dora = Ida Bauer (1882-1945) Frau Emmy von N. = Fanny Moser Fräulein Elizabeth von R. Fräulein Katharina = Aurelia Kronich Fräulein Lucy R. Little Hans = Herbert Graf (1903-1973) Rat Man = Ernst Lanzer (1878-1914) Wolf ...

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This is a partial list of patients whose case studies were published by Freud, with pseudonyms substituted for their names: Anna O. = Bertha Pappenheim (1859–1936) Cäcilie M. = Anna von Lieben Dora = Ida Bauer (1882–1945) Frau Emmy von N. = Fanny Moser Fräulein Elizabeth von R. Fräulein Katharina = Aurelia Kronich Fräulein Lucy R. Little Hans = Herbert Graf (1903–1973) Rat Man = Ernst Lanzer (1878–1914) Wolf M ...

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Freud was born Sigismund Schlomo Freud, into a Jewish family in Freiberg (Příbor), Moravia, the Austrian Empire (now the Czech Republic) on May 6, 1856. In 1877, at the age of 21, he abbreviated his given name to "Sigmund." Although he was the first-born of three brothers and five sisters among his mother's children, Sigmund had older half-brothers from his father's previous marriage. His family had limited finances and lived in a crowded apartment, but his parents made every effort to foster his intellect (often favoring Sigmund ov ...

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Sigmund Freud - Psychotherapy. Freud trained as a medical doctor, and as such, he believed his research methods and conclusions were scientific. However, his research and practice were condemned by many of his peers, as well as later psychologists and academics. Some, like Juliet Mitchell, have suggested that this is because his basic claim, that many of our conscious thoughts and actions are motivated by unconscious fears and desires, implicitly challenges universal and objective claims about the world (some pro ...

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Some have explained this synergy effect as an example of synchronicity, described by the psychoanalyst Carl Jung as a phenomenon in which coincidental events "seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality." [1] Dark Side of the Rainbow - Real or imagined?. Detractors [2] argue that the phenomenon is the result of the mind's tendency to look for and recognize patterns, real or not, amid disorder. In the same way, people sometimes believe that they recognize shapes in random clouds, that they see the image of a religious figure in a random blotch, or that they de ...

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