Psychoid
A word at the border
Psychoid · A theoretical term · A problem, not a field
Do not let the hole become a cosmology.
Do not define the psychoid as the invisible energetic field where synchronicities are generated. That sentence is a later invention wearing Jung’s coat.
Sourced
Jung used psychoid language while trying to think about a level that could not be adequately described as simply psychic in the ordinary sense. Later readers connected this to the Pauli dialogue. Its status is theoretical and speculative.
Shared vocabulary is not shared mechanism.
Concordance
- The thing
- The word psychoid, used by Jung while trying to think a level that was not simply psychic.
- Seen
- A term in texts. Changing usage. Later popularizations that treat it as an energy field.
- Sourced
- Jung’s writings on synchronicity and the psychoid factor; later secondary literature of uneven quality.
- Miss
- No laboratory demonstration. No agreed mechanism. Shared vocabulary with physics is not shared mechanism.
- One question remains
- What conceptual problem was Jung trying to solve by needing such a word?
