Vakarų ir neeuropietiškųjų kultūrų dichotomijos apmąstymai Karlo Gustavo Jungo komparatyvistinėje filosofijoje

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: C. G. Jungas; Intelektas; Jungas, Carlas Gustavas; Kultūra; Psichė; Rytai; Rytų mąstymas; Sąmonė; Vakarai; C. G. Jung; Consciousness; Culture; Culture, consciousness; East; Intellect; Jung, Carl Gustav; Oriental thinking; Psyche; West.

ENThis paper analyzes the most significant comparative studies of Jung on the issue of East and West, and discusses their actuality in the contemporary Western world. Jung purifies the onthological quintessence of Eastern thinking and culture. While spreading ideas of meditation, yoga, encrusting Eastern motifs into the instrumentary of his scientific analysis, the thinker accentuates onthological and cross-cultural aspects and states that there is some existence into which no Western man is able to sink. In the paper, relying on Jung it is revealed that in Eastern philosophy an equilibrium was always maintained between the spirit and the intellect, these two paradoxical and polar opposites (the essay “Secret of the Golden Ring”, 1929). The Western world reaction of Eros or intuition to the intellect, is shown like a progressive aspiration in order to restore equilibrium between the opposites. It witnesses a break in the consciousness, its struggle against the prevalence of the usurping intellect. Real possibilities for a European to absorb such positive psyche givings which are considered by the man of Eastern culture as understandable by themselves, inseparable parts of his spiritual life, are grounded by Jung using the identity between latent structures of mentality. [From the publication]