The Seba library treats Hylomorphism in 4 passages, across 3 authors (including Aristotle, Simondon, Gilbert, Jung, C. G.).
explain the Instrumentist features of the De Anima to which Nuyens drew attention without the resort to the apparatus of Nuyens’ own theory or some revised form of it
This passage interrogates whether Aristotle’s hylomorphic psychology is internally consistent or whether ‘Instrumentist’ phases requiring non-hylomorphic explanation reveal developmental tensions in the De Anima.
, De Anima (On the Soul), -350thesis
individuation is not a synthesis or return to unity but the phase-shift of the being based on its pre-individual center of potentialized incompatibility
Simondon explicitly displaces the hylomorphic model by grounding individuation not in the imposition of form upon matter but in the tensional resolution of a pre-individual field, making the form-matter schema ontologically secondary.
, Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, 2020thesis
what humans perceive in objects when they grasp them as individual is therefore not an indefinite source of signals, an inexhaustible reality, like matter, which allows itself to be analyzed indefinitely
Simondon critiques the notion of matter as infinitely passive substrate — a premise underlying hylomorphism — by introducing quantum variation as a model for psychical individuation that exceeds form-matter dualism.
, Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, 2020supporting
hylic into pneumatic man, Christian transformation of
The Gnostic-alchemical distinction between hylic and pneumatic registers the hylomorphic vocabulary as it was absorbed into early Christian anthropology, a background that informs Jung’s own matter-spirit symbolism.
, Collected Works Volume 3: The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease, 1907aside