A revolution of the mind: some implications of George Hogenson's 'The Baldwin Effect: a neglected influence on C.G. Jung's evolutionary thinking' (2001).
George Hogenson's 2001 paper 'The Baldwin Effect: a neglected influence on C.G. Jung's evolutionary thinking' developed the radical argument that, if archetypes are emergent, they 'do not exist in the sense that there is no place that the archetypes can be said to be'. In this paper, I show how Hogenson's thinking has been seminal to my own: it is not just archetypes but the mind itself that has no 'place'. The mind is a dynamic system, emergent from the cultural environment of symbolic meanings to which humans are evolutionarily adapted. Drawing on the work of philosopher John Searle, I argue that symbols constitute the realities that they bring forth, including the imaginal realities of the psyche. The implications for clinical work include a rejection of structural models of the psyche in favour of the emergence of symbolic realities in the context of psychoanalysis as a distributed system of cognition.
St. Albans, UK.
Warren
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Colman
D006801:Humans; D007602:Jungian Theory; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation
Archetipi; Archetypen; Archétypes; Arquetipos; archetypes; behindology; cognición distribuida; cognitive evolution; cognizione distribuita; connaissance répandue; constitutive symbols; distributed cognition; emergence theory; evolución cognitiva; evolution cognitive; evoluzione cognitiva; kognitive Entwicklung; konstitutive Symbole; simboli costitutivi; symboles constitutifs; símbolos constitutivos; teoria emergente; teoría de lo emergente; théorie de l'émergence; verbreitetes Erkenntnissystem; архетипы; когнитивная эволюция; основополагающие символы; послелогия; теория явления; ‘behindology’