"Thinking Psychology" 2025 ISPDI Online Symposium

A Few Words About “Thinking Psychology” Psychological thinking is uroboric; a thinking that, so to speak, “eats its own tail”. It turns back on itself in order to “think through” the ordinary appearance of things unveiling their deeper truth or meaning. This returning to itself forms the uroboric circle embodying wholeness, eternity, the unity of all things and, for psychology, soul.

This kind of thinking can also be conceived of as psychological interpretation, i.e., when the deeper essence of a phenomenon, through our work with it, becomes available to consciousness. This is the purpose of, for example, dream work when through circumambulation the dream becomes, as Jung quoting the Talmud said, “…its own interpretation”.

We would like to delve deeper into how psychological thinking releases the mercurius inherent in phenomena such as dreams, fairytales, clinical symptoms, cultural realities and so on. The thinking that we are concerned with…