Cosmic Play

Personal experience plays an absolutely essential and inescapable role in depth psychological research and theory, because when we deal with

Tacit knowledge cannot be put into words but is at work behind the scenes, essentially explaining from another view the underlying dynamics

Heuristic research is a method that was developed by Moustakas (1990) which describes how personal experience is used as a valid research me

Hermes is integral to hermeneutics; he is also at the center of Jung’s stone, and has played a central role in my dissertation and my life.

Now that we have the “lay of the land” of hermeneutics, we can proceed to explore a few of the concepts that will be central to my dissertat

The hermeneutic circle was anticipated in Plato’s notion of recollection or anamnesis: we can learn about the unknown only by recognizing it

Hermeneutics, the study of understanding, has ancient roots. It comes from the Greek word hermeneuin, “to interpret” and is associated with

As Romanyshyn (2001, lecture) reminds us, our research methods are always a perspective, and we are always in a perspective, although we may

When first learning about the different research methodologies I imagined a three-way dialogue between the methodologies, a mélange a trois,

Lévi-Strauss (1962/1966) notes that “the elements of mythical thought similarly lie half-way between percepts and concepts” (p. 18).