The Seba library treats Outside in 9 passages, across 8 authors (including Giegerich, Wolfgang, Neumann, Erich, Nhat Hanh, Thich).
Consciousness is an outside that is inside, and an inside that is outside… It is only to that extent truly ‘with’ the real things and people out there in that it stays inside itself
Giegerich argues that the inside/outside opposition is dialectically self-negating: consciousness reaches the outer world only by remaining within itself, exploding any literal spatial reading of ‘outside.’
, The Soul’s Logical Life Towards a Rigorous Notion of, 2020thesis
contents of the unconscious are primarily ‘projected’ indirectly as contents of the ‘outside world’ and not directly experienced as contents of the unconscious
Neumann establishes the outside world as the primary projection plane of the unconscious, making the apparent exteriority of phenomena a function of inner psychic dynamics.
, The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype, 1955thesis
each time I use the expression ‘outside world,’ I put it in quotes. This is because to me it is not really ‘outside.’ Look deeply at this: Is the world outside your body?
Nhat Hanh systematically brackets ‘outside’ as a phenomenologically suspect category, arguing that meditative inquiry dissolves the boundary between observer and so-called external world.
, The Sun My Heart, 1988thesis
One way in which this reduction might occur is by placing the dream’s purpose outside the dream. With the telos so displaced, we then find ourselves in the curious position of interpreting the dream in terms of a ‘cause’ that doesn’t appear in the dream at all.
Berry argues that relocating a dream’s telos to an outside referent is a reductive move that strips the dream of its autonomous significance.
, Echo’s Subtle Body: Contributions to an Archetypal Psychology, 1982thesis
after that he was able to put the world outside himself
The Zhuangzi presents the capacity to ‘put the world outside oneself’ as an attainment of sagely detachment, revaluing ‘outside’ as a volitional spiritual achievement rather than an ontological given.
, The Complete Works of Zhuangzi, 2013supporting
draw an unmistakably clear line between one’s own world and the forces outside of it. A bulwark is established on this line that safeguards against intrusion by foreign elements
Pargament identifies ‘outside’ as the constitutive threat in religious boundary-marking, where communities preserve significance by constructing a defended perimeter against external forces.
, The psychology of religion and coping theory, research,, 2001supporting
patients should be encouraged to discuss with the group any ‘relevant’ content that comes up outside… if the outside-of-group contact exceeds the usual socializing at AA meetings, it should be discussed with the group
In group therapy for addictions, ‘outside’ designates interactions occurring beyond the therapeutic container, which must be reintegrated into the group to preserve its cohesive work.
, Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations An, 1997supporting
when it is no longer ‘projected’ ‘out there,’ into t
Giegerich traces the movement of logical negativity from a positive image projected outward toward its internalised dialectical form, marking the transition beyond naïve projection.
, The Soul’s Logical Life Towards a Rigorous Notion of, 2020supporting
Eternity is not the negative abstraction of time, nontime, the outside-of-time… Eternity would be made into a moment of time
Derrida, reading Hegel, shows that ‘outside-of-time’ cannot be maintained as a coherent concept because any posited exteriority to time is immediately re-absorbed into temporal modification.
, Margins of Philosophy, 1982aside