Human Wholeness in Light of Five Types of Psychic Duality

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...

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Published in:Zygon
Main Author: Washburn, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 1987
In: Zygon
Year: 1987, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 67-85
Further subjects:B Wholeness
B psychic integration
B coincidence of opposites
B Duality
B neurological correlates
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1467-9744
Contains:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1987.tb00838.x