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Paradox as ground: The shadows in the archetypes

Sourcehttps://www.essentiafoundation.org/paradox-as-ground-the-shadows-in-the-archetypes/reading/
AuthorRiver Kanies
Published2026-06-05, 10:54 PM
SummaryRiver Kanies argues that the paradoxical nature of psychological archetypes isn't contingent, but reflect the very structure of experience: one where irresolvable tension is the impetus to action and the substance of meaning. The belief that an archetypal paradox can be resolved—that the tension between order and chaos, control and freedom, self and other can be finally settled in favor of one pole—is a failure to understand the nature of consciousness, he argues. It mistakes a structural featur
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