Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Spring 2012

Publisher

Lonergan Institute at Boston College

Source Publication

Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies

Source ISSN

0763-7392

Original Item ID

DOI: 10.5840/method2012312

Abstract

In this essay I will present an overview of what I have called psychic conversion. I will begin by narrating the birth of the idea, then will present a brief schematic history of its development and principal applications to date, and will conclude by presenting my current thinking, which involves connections with the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, the depth psychology of C. G. Jung, and the mimetic theory of Rene Girard. It will be clear from the first section that Heidegger and Jung were influential in the very emergence of the idea, but in my current work I have developed some new perspectives in their regard, and I will mention these at the end.

Comments

Published version. Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies, n.s., Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 2012): 1-17. DOI. © 2013 Lonergan Institute of Boston College. Used with permission.

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