王弼“卦主说”探微——对《易传》以来“卦主”思想的继承与发展

“卦主说”是发端于《易传》并经由京房、郑玄等易学家发展的一种解易体例,在王弼那里达到了新的高峰。王弼“卦主说”包括三个方面的基本内容：“一爻为主说”、“内外二体说”和“卦名、卦辞以定卦义说”。从其“卦主说”这一侧面分析,王弼的易学具有义理象数兼用、易玄结合两个基本特征,其理论的最终落脚点是人事道德、社会政治。     

张载气化哲学视野下的易学“卦变说”理论

"卦变说"是历代易学家常用的解易体例之一。张载作为义理派易学家在运用这一体例时体现出鲜明的特点。他以同时包含"乾""坤"两经卦的《否》《泰》两卦作为本卦,以其中的阴阳往来升降去诠释三阳三阴卦之经文与传文,透显出与其整体气化哲学的宇宙论、辩证观和社会历史观的连结和贯通。通过对此连结之深入发掘,对张子理学和《易》学以及二者关系的理解都有重大意义。     

论丁若镛“推移说”与汉宋易学——兼论朱熹、毛奇龄推移说对丁若镛的影响CSSCI

丁若镛是李朝朝鲜时期的易学家。他通过解释《易传》和汉宋卦变而提出"推移说"。此说的基本内涵是以汉代卦气说十二辟卦和中孚小过闰月卦之推移,变出其他五十衍卦,融卦气与筮法为一体,整合了汉易中的卦变法尤其是清代毛奇龄移易说,又吸收了宋代以朱熹为代表的卦变说。应该说其学是在融合汉宋卦变说基础上而建构起的一种具有新意的学说,是对于中国古代卦变说的整合和发展,拓展了象数易学研究的思路。此说以独特的符号话语阐发了易学中阴阳聚散、升降、消息、推移等变化思想,客观呈显了自然界阴阳变化的不同形式和表现特征,深化了中国古代以变化为核心的自然哲学思想。     

吴澄卦变思想研究与反思

"卦变"思想作为注解《周易》的重要体例之一,历来受到易学家们不同程度的关注。吴澄在充分借鉴吸收前人"卦变"说的基础上,构筑了一个十分完整严格的卦变体系,并将其全面运用于注释《周易》经传。特别是,吴澄全方位审视卦变涉及的两卦甚至多卦之间的动态、流转、互通关系,将其运用于注《易》当中,极大拓展了"卦变"思想在注解《周易》方面的深度与广度。     

论丁若镛“推移说”与汉宋易学——兼论朱熹、毛奇龄推移说对丁若镛的影响

丁若镛是李朝朝鲜时期的易学家。他通过解释《易传》和汉宋卦变而提出"推移说"。此说的基本内涵是以汉代卦气说十二辟卦和中孚小过闰月卦之推移,变出其他五十衍卦,融卦气与筮法为一体,整合了汉易中的卦变法尤其是清代毛奇龄移易说,又吸收了宋代以朱熹为代表的卦变说。应该说其学是在融合汉宋卦变说基础上而建构起的一种具有新意的学说,是对于中国古代卦变说的整合和发展,拓展了象数易学研究的思路。此说以独特的符号话语阐发了易学中阴阳聚散、升降、消息、推移等变化思想,客观呈显了自然界阴阳变化的不同形式和表现特征,深化了中国古代以变化为核心的自然哲学思想。     

论汉代易学的纳甲

“纳甲”是两汉易学象数学的基础,特别是虞翻说《易》,更以“纳甲”为重要依据,贯串于《周易》六十四卦。尽管历代易学家对“纳甲”毁誉不一,但“纳甲”在汉代易学中,又确实占有重要地位,对后世有较大影响,因此要了解汉代易学,就不能不对两汉的“纳甲”说作必要的研究和探讨。为此笔者谈谈个人的浅见,就教于方家。“纳甲”说始于何时,众说不一,或论始于西汉京房,似不尽然。考之《周易》的卦爻辞:言“干支”的如《蛊》卦“先甲三日,后甲三日”,《巽》卦“先庚三日,后庚三日”。《革》卦“已日乃孚”;言“方位”的如《坤》卦“利,西南得朋,东北丧朋”,《蹇》卦“利西南,不利东北”;言“时候”的如《小畜》卦《归妹》卦的“月几望”,《复》卦的“先王以至日闭关”等等。这说明以“干支”记时和东西方位之说,在我国已有悠久历史。据史书记载,早在三千多年前的夏、商时期,我国先民已经注意到对天象的观测,并以太阳主阳属天,极以“天干”(甲、乙、丙、丁、     

精诚致一 友谊永恒——《周易》损卦六三爻辞试解

《周易》损卦六三爻辞“三人行则损一人,一人行则得其友”哲理深刻,为历代易学家所重视,但因各自师承和学识的差异,所以解释也颇不同。兹将我初读损卦六三爻辞及阅读各家注释的点滴所得公诸于世,以就教于海内外易学大师。     

论胡瑗易学的卦气说

一直以来,胡瑗与王弼、程颐一道被视为易学发展史上义理易学的三个典型代表,而他所承继的汉代象数易学的学术内涵常常被忽略。实际上,胡瑗所秉持的,仍是象数义理合一的易学基本理路。作为汉代象数易学主流学说的卦气说,在其思想中依然占有基础性的地位。他在很大程度上正是基于此一卦气说语境阐发其义理内涵。而其卦气说所涉及的,主要有十二消息说和《乾》《坤》十二爻配十二月说两个方面的内容。基于卦气说的语境,胡瑗契接汉唐经学本天道立人道的基本精神与人文价值视野,力陈圣贤君子认清自己所处时势,以强烈家国天下担当,积极投入到天下事业中去,以此非但实现个体生命之意义,更深切关怀天下之有序与和谐。     

简论帛书《易传》中的卦气思想

本文讨论分析了《二三子》、《要》、《衷》等帛书《易传》中所蕴含的卦气思想,说明帛书《易传》与今本《易传》之间有着密不可分的关系。这一卦气思想是与其前的卦气思想一脉相承的,汉代的卦气思想,就是在此基础上建构完善起来的。探讨帛书《易传》中卦气说的存在,对于推进两汉象数易学的研究有着重要意义.     

易学话语与伊斯兰教中国化——论《天方正学》对易学话语的利用问题

明清时期,伊斯兰教汉文著述大量出现,汉语伊斯兰教在很多非基本信仰问题的思考与表述上,表现出明显的中国特色。清代后期,以蒋湘南与蓝曦为代表的伊斯兰教学者,系统利用熟悉的易学资源阐释汉语伊斯兰教思想。其中蓝曦在《天方正学》中,发展了王岱舆、马注等人已经开始的以回释儒的传统,大量利用卦气说、伏羲画卦说、易象说与太极化生宇宙说一套易学话语系统,作为建构汉语伊斯兰教思想的重要资源,这可以看作易学在清代的一个发展。这种情况的出现和中国思想史上格义的传统、易学强大的阐释空间、伊斯兰教思想和中国传统思想本身的沟通之处、汉语伊斯兰教思想明显有苏非气息等因素有关。     

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.