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Theoretical Frame


It was difficult to come up with or find a theoretical frame that I could incorporate into the many different cases and aspects of my paper. I ended up looking back into the text our class read towards the beginning of the semester. There I rediscovered Carl Jung’s book and also remembered how he wrote about synchronicity. While no researcher in the field made no direct link, I decided to look deeper into the meaning and found that synchronicity does play a role in many of the cases that I looked into. 

For my paper, I used this quote about Jung, who deciphers this meaning as, “in cases of [...] precognition, and similar inexplicable phenomena, one can very frequently observe an archetypal situation. This may be connected with the collective nature of the archetype, for the collective unconscious” (Jung 450). 

Within my paper, I am using this meaning synonymous with having a domino effect. My paper begins to describe this frame as one that is the moment where there is a widely accurate discovery that ultimately forms the domino effect of experiences that led children and their families towards a result. The way that Jung writes about how one can “frequently observe an archetypal situation” (Jung 450) relates to the journey of recurring motifs families find themselves in when trying to discover the previous personality of their child. This journey can then be symbolized as the “collective unconscious” that occurs when families find themselves having/finding crucial information to appear or become noticed randomly.

For example, one breaking point for James Leininger was when he and his father looked into a book that James bought for his father a while before. When just randomly flipping through the pages, James found the base at which his previous personality was stationed. While this would not be characterized as the main point of the case being solved, it is one of the main ones. These instances are ones that I have noticed to have a presence within mostly all the cases I have explored. Cases with these occurrences solidify the act of synchronicity, and this is how I plan to use it as my theoretical frame. 

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