Psychological Causality

Psychological Causality refers to the classical model of explanation in psychology that traces present phenomena to past causes — the assumption that current behavior, symptoms, and psychic states are effects of prior events (trauma, conditioning, developmental fixation). This is the dominant stance of Freudian psychoanalysis and behaviorism.

Carl_Jung challenged the exclusivity of this model by introducing a complementary principle: Psychological Teleology — the notion that the psyche is also drawn forward by purpose, meaning, and the anticipation of wholeness (Individuation). The Pauli-Jung dialogue (Pauli_Jung_Conjecture) further complicated simple causality by introducing Synchronicity as an acausal ordering principle.

See Also

• Psychological Teleology — the complementary forward-looking principle
• Carl_Jung — who challenged pure causal reductionism in psychology
• Synchronicity — the acausal connecting principle transcending cause-and-effect
• Pauli_Jung_Conjecture — the physics-psychology dialogue on causality
• Individuation — the teleological goal drawing the psyche forward