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Goss, Phil (2019) The holistic wish : migration of feeling, thought and experience. In: McMillan, Christian and Main, Roderick and Henderson, David, (eds.) Holism : Possibilities and Problems. Philosophy & psychoanalysis book series . Routledge. ISBN 9780367824389
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367824389-9
Abstract
This chapter explores the relevance of holism through a phenomenological lens, teasing out what purposes and developmental realities (and illusions) are revealed through the presence of the ‘wish’ to experience personal, relational, communal, and/or spiritual wholeness. This wish may take many forms, from a fleeting moment of felt and sensed integration which gives birth to a wish for something more long-lasting, through to a mentalised commitment to adopting attitudes and disciplines which aim at fostering a sustained sense of wholeness. Phil Goss argues for the presence of more than a classical Jungian emphases on archetypal polarities between wholeness and plurality (or even disintegration) of being and describes the mechanics of a tendency in the psyche, illustrated by some fictionalised clinical material, to ‘migrate’ towards holism as a desirable state even when life, and powerful social and intellectual influences, have us migrating in the other direction.
Applying a predominantly Jungian lens to this exploration, with Fordham’s de/re-integration dynamic as a guide, and drawing on other frames of reference including neuroscience to approach questions about holism, Goss posits that the human instinct to wish reflects the presence of a searching function (‘the holistic wish’) which seeks a sustained sense of organismic integrity.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Divisions: | Other > Centre for Lifelong Learning | ||||
Series Name: | Philosophy & psychoanalysis book series | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
ISBN: | 9780367824389 | ||||
Book Title: | Holism : Possibilities and Problems | ||||
Editor: | McMillan, Christian and Main, Roderick and Henderson, David | ||||
Official Date: | 2019 | ||||
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DOI: | 10.4324/9780367824389 | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
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