The Magical Level of Consciousness 1
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This article describes the subjective experience, phenomenology, and lawfulness of the magical level of consciousness (or in Jungian terms the infrared pole of the psyche) as Jean Gebser describes it and as it plays itself out intrapersonally and interpersonally in psychotherapeutic relationships, in particular with so-called borderline clients. There is a comparison between the main characteristics of the magical level and what Gebser calls the mental level of consciousness, i.e., the level of consciousness expected of contemporary adults. Some suggestions are made as to how to deal professionally with the magical level of consciousness both in oneself and in one’s relation-
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Critique of Critiques/An Answer to Domesticated Magic: A Critique of the Domestication of Magical Realism in Iran, Mohsen Hanif
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