The Unity of Aron Gurwitsch's Philosophy


on the one hand, thoughts are expressed on behalf of an integrated nameable self and, therefore, seem to be ‘my’ thoughts; on the other hand, the fact that they are spoken in words, which are designed to communicate between people, suggests a degree of internal fragmentation.
Andrew Spira • The Invention of the Self
Instead of a shared world outside mind, what we have is a collective region of mind that we don’t identify with and cannot control. Our perceptions and transcendent insights originate from this collective region, while our thoughts and fantasies arise in our personal mind.
Bernardo Kastrup • More Than Allegory
The theme of self-transcendence and the dissolution of ego has begun to appear more and more prominently in Western psychology since the 1960s. The transpersonal movement was anticipated by Abraham Maslow, one of the pioneers in humanistic psychology, itself a rebellion against the overly restrictive view of human nature promulgated by proponents o
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