以理性的思维看待中医

围绕着如何看待中医这场争论,涉及的问题是极其广泛而深刻的,是中国现代化进程与传统文化冲撞的表现.消除政治化和意识形态化的习惯思维心态,坚持以实践为标准,区别对待,宽容地对待不同意见,认清科学文化与人文文化的不同发展规律,以理性的思维看待中医,是中医目前处境的正确选择.     

为什么中国传统文化没有促进现代自然科学的发展?

中国传统文化的发展没有导致（或产生）由物理学所代表的现代自然科学，这一事实本身就反映了中国文化与西方文化的不同。尽管历史上中国在科学和技术方面取得过辉煌的成就，但为什么中国传统文化并没有促成现代自然科学的诞生呢？本文打算证明中国的语言，尤其是古代的书写文字是中国自然科学发展的主要障碍。本文将通过探讨中国语言和综合思维方式、哲学、科学以及政治的关系，来完成上述证明。 一、中国语言与综合思维方式 文化是思想活动的产物。因此，一个民族的文化发展不可能不受其思维方式的影响，而思维方式又不可能不受思维外壳─…     

以理性的思维看待中医

围绕着如何看待中医这场争论,涉及的问题是极其广泛而深刻的,是中国现代化进程与传统文化冲撞的表现。消除政治化和意识形态化的习惯思维心态,坚持以实践为标准,区别对待,宽容地对待不同意见,认清科学文化与人文文化的不同发展规律,以理性的思维看待中医,是中医目前处境的正确选择。     

试论《周易》对中国古代数学模式化道路形成及发展的影响──兼谈李约瑟之谜

《周易》是一部由思维决策的模式与解释模式的例题结集而成的书。中国数学的发展在《周易》思维模式的影响下也走上了模式化的道路。由于《周易》思维模式在一定时期具有某些先进性、合理性,因而曾使中国古代数学在早期取得过辉煌的成就。但在继续发展的道路上,因长期受控于《周易》模式,未能走上自身独立发展的模式化道路,终于导致中国近代数学的落后。中国古代数学的成就和近代数学的落后出于同一个原因：即由《周易》思维模式产生和长期影响下的模式化道路。成也于斯,败也于斯。它是“李约瑟之谜”在数学科学方面的部分谜底。     

百年文化论争的理论教条

在近代百年的文化论争中,论战的各方都在哲学思维层面接受社会有机思维方式,这种思维方式把社会各组成部分看作是紧密联系和不可分离的,正是这个理论教条使时人看不清楚传统文化在工业化过程中的重要作用。传统文化是工业化之弊的解毒剂,这是传统文化在当代社会的最重要的价值。由于思想家没有对传统文化进行点化,使中国工业化的思想资源严重缺乏,这使中国失去一个和谐发展的机会。当务之急是破除社会有机思维方式的理论教条,并对传统文化进行点化,从而使中国走出一条与西方社会不同的工业化发展道路。这是百年文化论争的最后解决。     

大分流:明清时期中国与欧洲比较研究综述及思考

关于"中国为何没有产生资本主义"一直是学术界关注的焦点。自马克思·韦伯的经典著作传入中国后,文化和宗教因素是解释这一现象的常用观点。彭慕兰的《大分流:欧洲、中国及现代世界经济的发展》一书摈弃了"欧洲中心论"立场,从经济史角度揭示出中国和欧洲最终走向不同发展道路纯属偶然。尽管该书在资料运用和推理等方面存在一定瑕疵,但作者在文化以外的领域寻找中国和欧洲最终走上不同发展道路原因的努力对学界的研究具有重要意义。文章试图基于此书的观点进一步探讨明清时期的中国没有通过商人贸易和军事财政走上殖民扩张道路的原因。     

中医知识概念形成的思维特征与临床价值分析——基于意义建构理论

概念是思维的原点和逻辑的起点,概念的定义方法决定了知识的特征和发展路径,东西方知识体系的差异源于概念的形成方法不同。中医知识受中国古代传统文化的影响,具有独特的概念定义方法,形成了独特的知识概念体系。中医知识概念价值主要对中医药临床实践者的临床整体视阈的思维方式和个体化辨证施治的实践技术系统的认知信念产生重要影响。运用现代意义建构理论诠释了中医知识概念形成的思维特征,并对其与传统文化的渊源关系展开讨论,以探究中医知识概念对临床创新的价值,从而更深入解释中医知识系统的独特性。     

从历史的角度论中医的科学性

先讨论了科学哲学对科学与伪科学的分界标准,从历史角度论述了中医对理性道路的选择,中医第一使命与中国古代科技文化背景对其发展道路的塑造,与近现代科技背景下对中医的伪科学诘难,认为中医虽非严格意义的科学,但不能对其贴上附加贬义的伪科学标签,中医是理性和具备科学精神的,应正确看待其探索角度与思路的价值.     

略论中医文化与中医医学科学的关系

一般而言,说中医是文化是从中医生存的文化背景而言,包括中医的思维特质、中医理论表述的方式、中医实践的方法以及中医与其他传统文化的相互关系,等等.其实,任何一门医学刚开始都是地方性的,如中医、西医、印度吠陀医学、阿拉伯医学等,在这门医学产生之初,它与它牛存的土壤密切相关,并受它所在环境的影响.作为整个大文化的一部分.这门医学文化是大文化中的次文化,就像中医文化是中国传统文化的一部分一样.     

探讨中医学自身发展规律

一是从奠立到演进都依托于传统文化并与时谐进.传统文化是蕴发中医学的土壤,中医学的理论及其发展和中国哲学、民族的思维方式及价值判定等共生共进.中医学以社会生产实践为基础知识和创发资源,<易经>的天运智慧使临床经验提升为理论.中医学理论只有靠传统文化才能准确解读.中医学在近代曾数历劫波,历程表明,缺失传统文化是中医学的难关,在重视中国传统文化之时中医生机勃勃.     

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.