Alexithymia and Synchronicity. A pair of opposites on the Ego-Self Axis
Journal title STUDI JUNGHIANI
Author/s Alberto Favole, Ferruccio Vigna
Publishing Year 2016 Issue 2015/42
Language Italian Pages 26 P. 39-64 File size 113 KB
DOI 10.3280/JUN2015-042004
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The authors discuss the transnosographic meaning of alexithymia, which is heuristically interesting in the clinical setting and capable of bridging different disciplinary approaches. From the Jungian perspective, alexithymia can be described as a "loss of Anima", the latter being the function that relates the Ego to the imaginative, emotional and somatic components. While alexithymia therapy can be seen as an attempt to progressively mend the disconnections that arise between psyche and soma, it can also be illuminating to ask what function may be fulfilled by the appearance of synchronistic events. Such events, acausal, psychophysical, destabilizing and affectively intense, are in sharp contrast with the unilate¬ral nature of alexithymic function. Accordingly, the authors suggest that the constructs of alexithymia and synchronicity can be regarded as a pair of opposites.
Keywords: Alexithymia, synchronicity, acausality, psychoid, Self, transitional object
Alberto Favole, Ferruccio Vigna, Alessitimia e sincronicità. Una coppia di opposti sull’asse Io-Sé in "STUDI JUNGHIANI" 42/2015, pp 39-64, DOI: 10.3280/JUN2015-042004