Conlon-McIvor, M.(2004). Paradox found: Depth memoir as quantum coniunctio.

Within our modern worldview, we suffer a loss of the imaginal as psyche is rendered separate from matter, spirit from nature, memory from futurity. Our felt subjectivity thus is often interpreted as one-sided psychological projection rather than as psyche's eternal process of 'possibilizing.' As Avens observes, psyche longs for a 'participatory, materialization of felt subjectivity.' This is our birthright.

In paradox found, we enter the middle ground of "both/and," where the space between our epistemological splits is eradicated. C. G. Jung, long intrigued by the paradoxical play of psyche and matter, called for an eradication of opposites so that a radical third, the coniunctio, might emerge. Critical to this process is psyche's participatory materialization of felt subjectivity.

In this dissertation, I explore the emergence of the radical third and its requisite revisioning of what we call matter. This matter was once assumed to be "tangible," writes Jung, but with the eruption of the new sciences, we have learned matter is really "an hypothesis...a symbol for something unknown, which may just as well be 'spirit,' or...even God." I investigate matter within the prism of memory, not the Hallmark memory constrained by a linear, time-bound trajectory, but memory as restored to its original meaning: the constant abiding of an emotional essence of importance which transcends time.

I chose the artistic method, herein called the Depth Memoir. After constructing a thematic, theoretical hermeneutic analysis of the West's relationship to time, memory, and the imagination, I have written eight depth memoirs, each emerging from the fertile psychotextural sod of childhood, Bachelard's so-called first time, the archetypal significance of which places it outside of causal time.

I propose that Depth Memoir becomes a therapy of creation and a bridge between epistemological splits: memory, rooted in the imaginal, mirrors a psyche in which the observer and the observed are categorically fluid. Thus, Depth Memoir helps point the way to transcending the egoic, time-bound I and our one-sided grasping onto the world. Moving through this deep remembering, so we are moved, witnessing the sacred act of reverse transubstantiation. In Depth Memoir, flesh becomes word as the heart learns to speak its original language, once again, or perhaps, for the first time.