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Aion (Carl Jung).
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Jung's Aion traces a history of the western imagination in the form of religious and scientific discourses. By looking at manifestations such as Gnosticism, alchemy, astrological symbolism both inside and outside Christianity, Jung is transforming this material into psychic genres, into ways of knowing and participating in the self. For Jung, religious doctrines and symbols were a collective bodying forth of the self.
Aion portrays western modernity's progress as an archetype-chronotope of colonial and material expansion. Time and space are united in a narrative of political domination and scientific experimentation. Most importantly, Jung links the materialist western chronotope with earlier narratives of religious history. The ethereal towers of Gothic architecture are a material dimension to an age's preoccupation with transcendence. A reaction sets in, as alchemy's concentration on the god sleeping in matter becomes matter as god, the only true reality to be investigated. Therefore, far from representing an escape from religion, modernity's fond belief in the atomic space-time as the underlying truth of existence is yet another twist of religious sensibility.
[Also] there is the presentation of Jung's psychology as a chronotopic myth: as another form of
'doctrine as medicine'.
Hence, like Christianity and alchemy before it, Jungian psychology aspires to heal the soul.
Susan Rowland - Literary Jung : Aion and The History of Imagination
http://www.jungianstudies.org/conferences/texas/papers/RowlandS.pdfJuga ada site menarik ini:
Symbolism of Popular Culturehttp://www.symbolism.org/writing/books/spc/sequence/home.htmlReligious and Societal SequenceA number of observers have recognized a sequential pattern in the development of civilization and the concurrent evolution of religion. Common stages identified by most researchers is the movement from hunting, to agriculture and then to the social communities of villages and the urban society of cities.
In The New God Image, Edward Edinger suggests a variation of this common sequence with the following six stages and key events contained within each stage.
Stages : Events:
Animism : hunting and gathering, animated world
Matriarchy : agriculture and settlement, earth mother
Hiearchical polytheism : cities development, urban society, patriarch
Tribal monotheism : Ancient Hebrew, Yahweh as personal God
Universal monotheism : Emergence of Christianity, god split
Individuation : Religion as phenomenology of psyche
Edinger elaborates on the various stages showing their relationship to psychic development. In the animism stage, the objective psyche was experienced in a diffuse way and spirits were everywhere - in animals, trees, places. The entire surrounding environment was animated.
With the evolution from hunting to agriculture, from animism to matriarchy, the "earth mother" became the primary symbol because food (life) now came from the ground rather than from animals. This was the stage when mankind began to recognize the cyclicality of life with the comings and goings of the seasons which brought annual crops. Fertility rites dominated during this period and vegetable symbolism took on an increasing importance. The death and rebirth imagery of the annual cycle was the dominate mythological pattern. The masculine archetype was subordinate to the feminine archetype because the earth was more important than the sky to the life of mankind.
In The New God Image, Edinger remarks that the Attis-Cybele myth was the dominant myth of this period. It told the story of the great mother and her son-lover who was castrated and died young, mourned like vegetation and then reborn the next year. As Edinger notes, it represents the feeble state of human consciousness at this stage which was still dominated by nature and the earth principle. The son-lover was reborn but he never achieved maturity just as the psyche had not achieved maturity at this time.
The move from agricultural settlements to urban environments marked the demise of the "great mother" and rise of the masculine principle. Matriarchy gave way to patriarchy in the next stage of hierarchical polytheism. The gods were no longer earth gods but now sky gods with Zeus the dominant god. The period of hierarchy begins with the King at the top of the hierarchy. Kingship was required to govern the new city states. Egypt and Greece cultures were dominant and much of the central mythology was Norse and Germanic in origin. The period saw the beginning of technology, metalurgy and writing and Homer's Iliad.
The next stage was tribal monotheism created by the ancient Hebrews. The god was Yahweh and, unlike Zeus, he was a personal god. With the emergence of Christianity, the tribal monotheism of ancient Israel became universal and available to entire nations. The monotheism of one tribe now became available to all tribes. A new god image developed with Christianity. As Edinger notes, Israel's Yahweh was a Father-God whereas Christianity's god-image was a Son-God. Yahweh had two sons, though, and in order for Yahweh to turn into the all-good Christ-Son, he had to split off the all-bad Satan-Son. Although split off, the Satan son remained in the background to be dealt with later.
Interestingly, one of the key symbols of the Christian aeon Jung discusses in Aion is the fish symbol of Pisces. Jung finds a dual fish symbol through the Christian era. The first half of the Christian aeon was under Christ who was symbolized by the first fish. The second half of the aeon was under Satan, the split off son, who was symbolized by the second fish.
With the final phase of individuation, Edinger remarks that religious imagery comes to be understood as the phenomenology of the psyche. As we have shown, this was one of the central themes of Jung's Aion. It was also a central theme of Jung's Answer to Job.
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