Comparing the Theory of Self-Revelation of the Soul in Mullā Ṣadrā’s Philosophy with the collective unconscious theory in Jung's psychology

Document Type : Original Article

Author
zohre salahshur sefidsangi
Tehran Farhangian University
10.30470/phm.2025.2041971.2578
Abstract
In Islamic philosophy, the issue of abstraction and detail, or depth and emergence in knowledge and consciousness, is clearly found in the works of Mulla Sadra, and after him, the commentators of his philosophy have expanded this issue. Mulla Sadra has used these terms in Theory of Self-Revelation of the Soul which is his final reading in the problem of cognition and consciousness. The equivalent of these terms in Jung's psychology can be considered conscious and unconscious or conscious and unconscious. Although Jung's and Mulla Sadra's theories have been proposed in two different fields, these theories can influence each other in some cases. From the points of commonality, we can refer to the concepts used in these theories and how to explain the order of emergence and consciousness in these theories, and among the differences between these two theories, we can consider the material or abstract issue of science, the explanation of the unconscious order in Jung's theory and or the order of batun and ajamal in the theory of Mulla Sadra. These points of difference arise from the foundations of each of these two thinkers,
Keywords
Self-Revelation of the Soul"
subconscious"
conscious"
hiddenness"
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manifestation
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