Lin, Andrew. "The Creativity of Archetypal Process-The Notion of "Self" according to Jung, I-Ching, and Process Philosophy." (Conference Paper- International Conference on Creativity and Process: East-West Dialogue). Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan, 2007.

Abstract

Both viewed as postmodern thoughts, Process philosophy is eager to dialogue with Carl Jung's analytic psychology (or archetypal psychology), especially in the works of David Griffin and Catherine Keller.  The creativity of "archetypal process" becomes the locus in-between these two Western trends, whether in psychology or in philosophy.  Moreover, the openess to the non-Western thoughts is another consensus of both.  For Jung, "the union of the opposite," whether the union of the West and the East, or of the conscious and the unconscious, is the goal of his archetypal psychology; his psycholgoical typpology de facto could be viewed as the creative process of I-Ching (the Ultimate becomes two dimensions; two dimensions become four phases; four phases become eight trigrams), and, in the reversal, its psychological process toward the totality could be viewed as the return back to the Tai-chi (the Ultimate).  For Process philosphy, the Book of Changes (I-Ching) provides an alternative perspective on the "creative process" of self identity.  The I-Ching reveals the creativity of the archetypal process and provides an Asian way to connect Jung's archetypal psychology with Process philosophy.