Speaker
- Harry Henderson
Organiser
International Society for Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority
Website
https://jungian.directory/related_organisation/international-society-for-psychology-as-the-discipline-of-interiority/Essential to psychology is the recognition that the psyche is not only the object of psychological investigation, but at the same time, and recursively so, its subject. Having no point of perspective outside the psyche to view it from objectively, and no substrate or pre-suppositional base in anything more substantial, literal, or positively existing, a truly psychological psychology, it follows, must be internal to itself, a discipline of internal reflection.As its name implies, The International Society for Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority is dedicated to the furthering of psychology by means of this very same process of rigorous self-application and continuing self-redefinition. Embracing the inwardness of psychology in an absolute manner, its aim is to advance the discipline by subjecting psychology, again and again and at ever new levels, to its constituting recognition that everything that it asserts about the psyche--all of its insights, theoretical statements, knowledge claims, and topic choices--are at the same time expressions of the psyche, a part of its on-going phenomenology.
Geist and Ghost: The Departedness of Soul
The soul's truth does not want to stay external to itself any longer: no longer the object of our seeing and upward-looking reverence or, conversely, the manifest depth of reality facing us. It wants to turn inwards. It wants to come home to itself, become interior to itself, which of course--for us, for the human subject--means the (logical, not literal) departedness of the soul's truth.
- Wolfgang Giegerich, The Historical Emergence of the I, p. 276
The ISPDI has had many gatherings since the society began in 2012 and our pattern has been to hold a larger event about every 2 years and an “off year” event in-between these conferences. Last year, in 2021, we held a larger conference “The Soul’s Logical Life” and this year, instead of a more formal event, we thought we would try something different for our members. Throughout the year we will hold informal opportunities for discussion where a presenter, perhaps from the executive committee perhaps someone else, will present a relatively short topic which will be followed by questions and discussion.
Topos, was originally an ancient greek word for “place” and over the years it has come to mean a common or rhetorical theme, more a mental “place.” So the term’s history is a movement from literal place or location, in reality, to one in the mind, in thought and discourse. The point of these discussions, and in fact the whole focus of the ISPDI, is to open a space, a topos, to talk, think and learn about “soul”, especially the psychological idea of soul formulated by C.G. Jung and Wolfgang Giegerich. In any case, welcome to TOPOS, a place that is, in some ways, “no place”.