The Memory of Original Wholeness and Conscious Differentiation in Genesis 1:1-2:4a

Old Testament Essays

Helen Keith-van Wyk¹ 

[1] School of Religion, Philosophy & Classics, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal;

关键词: genesis;    paradigm;    jungian psychoanalysis;    wholeness;    creation;   

DOI  :  10.17159/2312-3621/2017/v30n2a6.

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Sakkie Spangenberg has written a number of articles dealing with Gen 1-3 in terms of its place in traditional Christian dogma and the paradigm shifts he has experienced in his understanding of this text. In this article, I would like to honour Sakkie by providing a Jungian psychoanalytic interpretation of Gen 1:1-2:4a, focusing primarily on the memory of original wholeness and the conscious differentiation that are reflected in this text. I conclude that the psyche that produced this creation story had stalled at the third stage of individuation as a result of a traumatic experience which caused it to long for its erstwhile memory of original wholeness.