History of Cosmos–Psyche Thought
Timeline from Platonic cosmology through Romanticism, Jung, transpersonal psychology, integral theory, and Richard Tarnas's archetypal cosmology.
Western cosmos–psyche thought moves from ancient cosmos as living order through Enlightenment disenchantment to twentieth-century depth and transpersonal psychology, then archetypal cosmology.
Timeline (selected)
- c. 360 BCE — Plato: cosmos as rational, ensouled order
- 1800s — Romanticism revalues nature, symbol, and the unconscious
- 1910s–1950s — Jung: collective unconscious, archetypes, synchronicity
- 1960s–1970s — Transpersonal psychology; Esalen; Grof's holotropic research
- 1970s–1990s — Wilber's integral theory; Hillman's archetypal psychology
- 2006 — Tarnas publishes Cosmos and Psyche
- 2008+ — Archai journal extends archetypal cosmology research