The Seba library treats Disenchantment in 7 passages, across 5 authors (including Richard Tarnas, M.H. Abrams, Wiener, Jan).
Depriving the world of subjectivity, of its capacity for intentional significance, by objectification and disenchantment radically enhances the human self’s sense of freedom and autonomous subjectivity
Tarnas argues that disenchantment, understood as the stripping of intentional significance from the world, is the constitutive act of modern subjectivity — enabling human autonomy at the cost of cosmic meaning.
, Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, 2006thesis
It was just this presumption that the world could finally be mastered by calculation that Weber defined as the essence of disenchantment.
Tarnas locates Weber’s definition of disenchantment — the belief that calculability exhausts reality — as the epistemological premise that depth-psychological and archetypal approaches must directly contest.
, Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, 2006thesis
The great Romantic works were not written at the freight of revolutionary hope but out of the experience of partial or total disenchantment with the revolutionary promise.
Abrams establishes disenchantment with the French Revolution as the generative condition of Romanticism, producing works that translate millennial aspiration into an interior, psychological dimension.
, Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature, 1971thesis
this idealization inevitably turned into disappointment and disenchantment and ultimately ended their relationship, pushing Jung further away from an interest in transference
Wiener uses disenchantment to name the relational collapse that followed the Freud-Jung idealization, with lasting theoretical consequences for Jung’s stance toward transference.
, The Therapeutic Relationship: Transference, Countertransference, and the Making of Meaning, 2009supporting
we see religious disenchantment and religious detachment after crises and transitions. How are we to make sense of this puzzle?
Pargament identifies religious disenchantment as a documented coping outcome following life crises, complicating the assumption that stress invariably deepens religious engagement.
, The psychology of religion and coping theory, research,, 2001supporting
a type of tale of enchantment and disenchantment that on the European side is represented by the legends of the Grail
Campbell identifies enchantment and disenchantment as the structural poles of a mythic narrative pattern prominent in both Celtic-European and Near Eastern traditions, epitomized by the Grail legend.
, Creative Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume IV, 1968supporting
We are not just solitary separate subjects in a meaningless universe of objects upon which we can and must impose our egocentric will.
Tarnas gestures toward the existential consequence of disenchantment — the isolated ego confronting a meaningless cosmos — as the condition his re-enchanted cosmology seeks to supersede.
, Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, 2006aside