This series covers events from 04/12/1978 - 04/26/1978

This four-part series presents a sophisticated integration of Buddhist psychology with James Hillman’s archetypal psychology and C.G. Jung's analytical psychology. Damiani builds on the framework developed by Hillman in his book Emotion, which uses Aristotle’s four causes (efficient, final, formal, and material) as an organizing framework to develop a comprehensive theory of emotion that transcends mutually exclusive academic frameworks. The series argues that symbolific activity is the efficient cause of emotion—emotions arise not from objects themselves but from their symbolic representation by the manas principle grasping the alaya-vijnana (storehouse consciousness) stream—thus integrating Yogacara Buddhist concepts with those of Hillman and Jung. Central to this integration is the revolutionary insight that emotion is non-localized—the universal psyche (alaya-vijnana) is “both within and without,” making emotion a field phenomenon rather than something confined to individual bodies. Universal energy becomes emotion only through the functioning of the psyche, with symbols acting as the transformative mechanism.

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