Warren Colman
33 Papers
126 Citations
Warren Colman is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Meaning (existential) & Archetype. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 31 publications.
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Papers
Imagination and the imaginary.
TL;DR: It is argued that real imagination depends on the capacity to acknowledge the absence of what is imagined from the world of material actuality, which leads on to a view of symbol formation as the operation of the transcendent function between the opposites of presence and absence.
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Aspects of Anima and Animus in Oedipal Development
TL;DR: The contrasexual archetype is inserted into the dynamic narrative of the Oedipus complex and the damaging impact of a split parental couple on this process and the positive role of idealization as a stimulus to psychic development is explored.
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Are Archetypes Essential
TL;DR: This paper distinguishes between Jung's theoretical discourse regarding the archetypes and his phenomenological account of numinous experience, and emphasises the role of symbols in the constitution of affect through collective human action in the world.
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Symbolic conceptions: the idea of the third.
TL;DR: It is suggested that a) these functions must be operative in the mind before the Oedipal situation can become meaningful and b) that psychoanalytic theories are themselves symbolic conceptions which, like mythological narratives, seek to communicate and comprehend psychic reality through imaginal forms.
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Synchronicity and the meaning‐making psyche
TL;DR: This paper contrasts Jung's account of synchronicity as evidence of an objective principle of meaning in Nature with a view that emphasizes human meaning-making.
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