The Seba library treats Theoria in 8 passages, across 6 authors (including Giegerich, Wolfgang, von Franz, Marie-Louise, Arthur W.H. Adkins).
It is the soul as theoria about itself that due to this ruthless self-exposure and by venturing into the virginal forest actually sees the soul itself in its purity and divinity
Giegerich argues that theoria is not an external reflection upon soul but the soul’s own constitutive act of self-knowing, making psychology identical with the soul’s self-relation.
, The Soul’s Logical Life Towards a Rigorous Notion of, 2020thesis
at the same time they tried to construct a theoria, a Weltanschauung or theoretical explanation. They nearly wrecked their heads to interpret or to understand what they were doing.
Von Franz identifies alchemical theoria as the speculative, cosmological self-interpretation that accompanied laboratory practice, functioning as an unconscious mythological psychology.
, Archetypal Patterns in Fairy Tales, 1997thesis
Aristotle may be able to assert the predominance of theoria, for this is qualitatively different from the aretai of practical activity; but to assert the predominance of dikaiosune, one practical arete among many, is impossible
Adkins demonstrates that Aristotle’s elevation of theoria over practical virtue rests on its qualitative difference from other excellences, a move that undermines any unified account of moral responsibility.
, Merit and Responsibility: A Study in Greek Values, 1960supporting
This contention, that we are our noblest part, our theoretic intelligence, is absurd, and leads to conclusions as absurd, as the supposition that a man is ‘really’ only desire or only passion.
Adkins critiques the Aristotelian reduction of human identity to theoretic intelligence as producing a one-sided psychology of the person that ill-serves moral responsibility.
, Merit and Responsibility: A Study in Greek Values, 1960supporting
the kind of plurality that Aristotle preserves by leaving theoria, praxis, and poiésis side-by-side seems to me to agree better with the sort of philosophy I prefer, one that is not too quick to unify the field of human experience
Ricoeur endorses Aristotle’s tripartite plurality of theoria, praxis, and poiesis as philosophically preferable to any premature unification of human experience under a single principle.
, Oneself as Another, 1992supporting
theoria, 3
Hillman’s index locates theoria in close proximity to ‘theory’ and ‘psychological theory,’ indicating its use as a technical term within the book’s conceptual architecture without elaboration at this point.
, The Dream and the Underworld, 1979aside
theoria, 261, 277
The index entry situates theoria as a catalogued term within Jung’s alchemical and psychotherapeutic framework, marking its presence as a technical reference in the Practice of Psychotherapy.
, The Practice of Psychotherapy: Essays on the Psychology of the Transference and Other Subjects, 1954aside
theoria, 177
An index citation in the Archetypes volume confirms theoria as a recurring technical term within Jung’s broader alchemical and psychological lexicon.
, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, 1959aside