Jingchao Zeng- Doctor of Philosophy
- PhD Student at University of Essex
Jingchao Zeng
- Doctor of Philosophy
- PhD Student at University of Essex
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I am a PhD student in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, Colchester, UK. I hold a masters degree in Jungian studies from the University of Essex. I am currently the co-organizer of the synchronicity research group (2023-2025) in the department. My PhD thesis title is A Practice of Magic or Psychology: Adaptations of Jungian Ideas to Divinatory Techniques.
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October 2021 - October 2022
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Organizers: Jingchao Zeng (University of Essex, UK) & Nathan Fraikin (École Pratique des Hautes Études, France). Advisor: Professor Roderick Main (University of Essex, UK).
Jung introduced the concept of synchronicity in his article in 1952 as a principle of non-causal connection, acknowledging that the evolution of this principle in his thinking...
Jung’s conceptualization of synchronicity has a relation to his engagement in astrology began in roughly 1906. Jung’s conceptualization of varieties of synchronistic experiences can be divided into non-divinatory and divinatory experiences. Among the divinatory sources, he overlooked the differences between I-Ching divination and astrology. His neg...
University of Essex
Synchronicity Research Group 2023-2024 (Online Meetings)
Organizers: Jingchao Zeng (University of Essex, UK) & Nathan Fraikin (École Pratique des Hautes Études, France / University of Essex, UK). Advisor: Professor Roderick Main (University of Essex, UK).
Jung introduced the concept of synchronicity in his article in 1952 as...
Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung had a lifelong interest in the I Ching after discovering it in 1919. Jung’s interest in the I Ching is arguably more practical than purely theoretical or intellectual, and references to I Ching divination appear frequently in his various publications, seminars, letters and clinical practice records. After a few observat...
