From: "Håkan Lindgren" <
h5@...>
> I took a look at Victor Mansfield's web pages, and I don't think
his ideas of synchronicity can be applied to linguistics - or to
anything at all. He's just another <insert your favourite expression
here>.[cut]
I am sorry, Hakon, if I have inadvertendly managed to add to your
confusion about synchronicity. This concept goes back some 70 years
when C.G.Jung (I am sure you have heard of him?) began to
investigate deeper layers of the unconscious psyche. He noticed a
phenomenon which he later decided to describe systematically as
synchronicty
(C.G.Jung: "Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle",
Collected Works Vol. VIII). In the last 70 years a vast amount of
learned papers and books have been written on the subject expanding
on Jung's seminal ideas, but as this is obviously of no interest
either to you or to the list, I will
refrain from discussing it any further.
I don't know whether synchronistic principles could be investigated
by linguists , but they certainly appear on a regular basis in all
human communications and deeply affect our thinking and language.
> I'm instinctively interested in new areas of science, [cut]
> but I'm also instinctively suspicious of people [cut]
> Of the people on this list, I'm among the ones with the least >
knowledge of linguistics [cut]
As long as your instincts are in good working order, you are
in no danger of falling into the clutches of such pseudo-scientists
as C.G.Jung, his disciples and their like. :-)
Ciao
Stefan