谈《革》卦的解释和贡献

《周易》第四十九卦《革》卦的“革”字作什么解,整个卦爻辞作什么解,卦爻辞的含义与《彖传》《象传》是否一致,有不同看法,是值得探讨的.倘这“革”字指皮革,即卦爻辞讲皮革,与《彖传》《象传》讲改革的不一致,那末卦爻辞的意义就不大了.倘这“革”字指变革、改革讲,即卦爻辞也讲改革,那末这个卦爻辞就比较重要,值得探讨,看它对改革提出什么经验教训,可供探索,再看《象传》又是否在理论上对     

《周易》思想新探——兼论孔子与《周易》的关系

<正> 如实了解《周易》卦爻辞思想及其与孔子的关系,是正确认识中国思想源头和孔子思想渊源的前题。《周易》可分为符号(卦画)与文字(卦辞、爻辞)两部分。卦画不是语言概念,人们从来没有用卦画来进行思维,它也不是记录思想的工具,而只是一些空洞的符号。卦画的基本符号一、—不具有哲学中阴阳范畴的意义。只是到了战国时期,《周易大传》的作者们才用阴阳范畴解释一、—这一对基本符号,《周易》的卦画结构才第一次得到全面解释。卦爻辞则是周公、召公为了使成王、诸侯及其后嗣子孙居安思危,常怀忧患意识,指导史巫将历年存放于“金縢之匮”中的命龟之辞及其他历史文献,加以整理,编写而成的文王、     

释《周易·渐卦》

通过对渐卦卦象的分析,并考《说文》段注“陂陀曰渐”,得出渐卦取名为渐,当取坡渐之意,进而引伸为渐进之意。又从卦爻象出发,对渐卦的卦爻辞作出分析,认为渐卦的卦爻辞是根据其卦爻象而系出,而且其整卦的卦爻辞都是围绕着一个中心主题而展开,且其思想与《诗经》中的《鸿雁》等篇不无关系。这或可为进一步解读《周易》古经及其产生时代问题提供某种有益的启示。     

虞翻《易》注的几个问题

虞翻通过《易》注,建立了一个相对缜密的易学体系,对《易》学多有发明。但注中以《易》卦爻辞为文王作,杂用夏历、周历,变四正卦与四时相应,则存在前后不一等缺陷。     

论卦爻符号的起源及《周易》的意义层面

通观《周易》文本,我们可以发现它使用了两种符号,一种是卦爻符号。另一种是汉字符号。在这两种符号中有三层意义平面:卦象与它的“所指”是第一意义平面,卦爻辞与卦象之间是第二意义平面;《易传》与卦爻辞、卦象之间是第三意义平面。如果我们把卦爻符号叫做对象语言的话,那么卦爻辞就是元语言,《易传》就是元元语言。     

现象学的解卦方案——以张祥龙的现象学释《易》法解屯卦

张祥龙提出了与时偕行的“象辞互凑生成法”,用以解释《周易》的卦画与卦爻辞之间的生成意蕴。这一解释方法是现象学的,因为它所从出的思想机缘是张祥龙对现象学之构成性、发生性、边缘性以及非对象化思想特征的揭示。以象辞互凑生成法解卦的核心在于因时因势地对筮例进行取象解释,但此种取象并不因此沦为任意的,相反,它始终紧扣阴阳转化的时机,根据卦画的阴阳排布序列以及爻位的先天成象完成对卦爻辞之后天物象的阐释。它从根本上拒绝对卦爻辞作出纯粹历史的解释或按照个人偏好对物象的肆意发挥。就此而言,张祥龙提出的现象学释《易》法即象辞互凑生成法恰好能够提供一种对《易经》解读方法本身的反思,因为它运用了一种既来自后验的又同时是先天的方法来解释《易经》的卦爻辞与卦爻画。以屯卦为例,可以具体演示这种解读思路。     

从卦爻辞的内容看其性质

根据卦爻辞的形式和内容,我们把它分为三类;直接表述吉凶等断辞的;记述象占的;单纯纪事,无吉凶等断辞的。从性质上来说,《易经》是一部老皇历式的著作。卦爻画表示的是日历。直接表述吉凶的卦爻辞记述的是时日占候。记述象占的卦爻辞表述的是一些行为禁忌,其中的某些卦爻辞也应和时日有关系。单纯纪事的卦爻辞情况则较复杂,有些卦爻辞可能是祈使句,表示此卦爻所当时日内应做某事,有些则是记述的某时日内“名人”“名物”的事迹,供后人参考,有些则可能是些“半拉子工程”。     

《左传》筮例与文王演《周易》

《左传》筮例与文王演《周易》李纯仁,耿志勇按：为庆祝本刊创办十周年,特于此期和下期发表部分纪念征文。在这些征文中,我们欣喜地看到,一批易学新秀已经以其独到的学见出现在易坛之上。易学史上争论颇多的问题之一是谁把八卦重为六十四卦并为之编制卦爻辞。文王演《...     

《周易》乾坤两卦卦爻辞五考

本文对《周易》乾坤两卦的６处卦爻辞作了新的解释,认为《乾》卦九三爻辞“君子终日乾乾,夕惕若”之“惕”应训为止息;“用九”、“用六”之“用”本字为“通”,应训为全、皆;《坤》卦卦辞应“东北丧朋”在先,“西南得朋”在后,其次序与“先迷后得主”有内在联系,是建立在八卦卦气说基础上的;六二爻辞应断为“直方,大,不习,无不利”,“习”本字为“摺”,即折,是说做到正直而方正,就能宏大,就能不失败,就能无所不利;上六爻辞“血”本字应为“率”,即首领,“玄黄”应训为病。这些新的训释对理解《周易》乾坤两卦的思想有着极其重要的意义。     

论《周易》卦爻辞的文学价值

论《周易》卦爻辞的文学价值邹然《周易》卦辞和爻辞是对六十四卦与三百八十四爻所蕴涵意义的确切界定,即对这些卦体爻符所代表的物象内容、人事现象及其占筮效用所作的文字表述,所谓“卦有小大,辞有险易;辞也者,各指其所之”,“圣人之情见乎辞”（《周易·系辞》）...     

Together – apart: in touch in a time of separation

This paper explores the experience of working as a Jungian analyst through the various phases of the global COVID-19 pandemic, examining the importance of the physical containing space alongside the analyst’s internal mind and how technology can both help and hinder understanding. A number of clinical vignettes illustrate the challenge of communicating over a distance, paying particular attention to the way countertransference phenomena can become re-attuned. Reference is made to mythology and symbols of hope, and consideration given to the meaning and purpose of the pandemic.     

The Possibility of Meaning in Human Evolution

Science undermines the certitude of non-naturalistic answers to the question of whether human life has meaning. I explore whether evolution can provide a naturalistic basis for existential meaning. Using the work of philosopher Daniel Dennett and scientist Ursula Goodenough, I argue that evolution is the locus of the possibility of meaning because it has produced intentionality, the matrix of consciousness. I conclude that the question of the meaning of human life is an existentialist one: existential meaning is a product of the individual and collective tasks human beings undertake.     

Phenotypic plasticity and archetype: a response to common objections to the biological theory of archetype and instinct

Since Jung’s death in 1961, scholars have attempted to integrate growing biological science data into Jungian concepts such as the collective unconscious, instincts and the archetypes. This enterprise has been challenging due to persistent false dichotomies of gene and environment occasionally arising. Recent works by Roesler (2022a, 2022b) for example, have raised objections to the biological theory of archetypes, but the objections are plagued by such dichotomies. The concept of phenotypic plasticity, however, helps to both avoid this problem as well as bridge the gap between competing theories into a more integrated model with solid biological foundations.     

When is it time to stop? When good enough becomes bad enough

This article draws on Winnicott’s concept of the good enough mother to discuss how to know whether a therapeutic situation is good enough to continue or bad enough to end. This dilemma is explored in terms of clinical syndromes, such as anorexia and pathological gambling, but focuses mainly on analyst-initiated endings, which are termed the ‘Casablanca dilemma’, based on an amplification of the ending of the film Casablanca. The author goes on to discuss such one-sided endings, drawing on interviews with 40 analysts and therapists about their clinical experience. A typology of bad enough endings is presented. The psychological differences between a good enough analysis as opposed to a bad enough one are explored through the ideas of Winnicott and Neumann.     

Kann Es Ein Argument Für Den Skeptizismus Geben? Das Epistemische Problem Der Irrtumsmöglichkeit

Summary  Is there any argument for scepticism? The epistemic problem of the possibility of error. Arguments for scepticism rest on the assumption that knowledge claims are fallible. For this reason the concept of knowledge appears to be questionable. Since it is necessary to distinguish doubts from possible doubts, the arguments for scepticism appear to be unconvincing. If we take it into account that we know something that is immune to doubt, we should draw the conclusion that, contrary to scepticism, knowledge claims have to be compatible with being fallible. Thus any knowledge claim is capable of being doubted.     

The transcendent function in Spitteler’s Prometheus and Epimetheus

In August 2020, John Beebe and Steve Myers met via Zoom to discuss their differing interpretations of psychological typology and the different sources within Jung’s writings that influenced their books: Integrity in Depth: Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type (Beebe), and Myers-Briggs Typology vs Jungian Individuation (Myers). The discussion centred on Spitteler’s epic poem Prometheus und Epimetheus, which forms the basis of chapter V of Psychological Types. This is both the largest chapter and one of two chapters that Jung highlighted in the Argentine foreword as containing the essence of the book. Jung’s book is primarily about the transformation of personality rather than the categorization of people. Although it contains a critical psychology that deconstructs the nature of consciousness, that is only one half of the book and a stepping-stone to the other half, which is the reconciliation of opposites with particular emphasis on the relation of consciousness and the unconscious. Jung assumed that readers were already familiar with Prometheus und Epimetheus, an understanding of which sheds light on the nature of the transformation that Jung described – the development of a new attitude towards attitude itself.     

Chapter 6: Biblical Foundations for a Practical Theology of Aging

SUMMARY

This article reviews Biblical sources pertaining to the elderly, particularly the frail elderly. Founded on these sources, implications for elderly with Alzheimer's Disease and other forms of dementia are addressed through a personal perspective informed by writings of Christian mystics.     

Seeing in the Dark: A View into Dissociation and Healing

In this paper, I will explore the role of art-making, the experience of trauma and dissociation, and the process of working with self-states from an analytic and creative frame. Relevant literature on dissociation, trauma, and the use of art will be discussed. A case involving my work with an adolescent girl who had experienced sexual abuse from a family member will be shared, with an emphasis on the meaningful role images played during the therapeutic process. Both Jungian and psychoanalytic models of conceptualizing and working with dissociation are included, following Donald Kalsched’s (2013) recommendation for a “binocular stance” to treatment, including both a focus on the inner, intrapsychic world and the interpersonal, relational realm, and how art images both illuminated and expressed these realms. Within the therapeutic process, art images allowed the therapist a view into the client’s unconscious process, and created a meeting ground for dissociative barriers to be gradually seen, felt and known, by both therapist and client. The experience of dissociation, in images and in session, provided a reference point for myself and my client, Taylor, to develop a shared understanding and a framework for growth.