Unus mundus

1. Etymology

Unus mundus (Latin one world) names the pre-Newtonian idea of a unitary world in which strata of existence are intimately linked. Sharp redirects to coniunctio. Related: psychoid; synchronicity; psychic reality; alchemy.

2. Plain summary

Sharp’s lexicon sends Unus mundus to Coniunctio. Samuels keeps a dedicated head: Jung’s alchemy and work on psychic reality, the psychoid unconscious, and synchronicity led him to the unitary-world image—not a transcendent master plan, but intimate linkage of strata (body–psyche; psyche–matter). Analogies with sub-atomic physics (particle/wave; action-at-a-distance) support a non-causal, relation-focused worldview. Meaning-discernment still needs ego involvement; dependence on codices must be monitored. Some analysts dissent that the vision costs pluralistic psyche vitality.

Examples (exhaustive house list for this Index lemma — common unus-mundus motifs named across Jung’s essays and standard Jungian lexica; not a claim that Jung’s CW contains only these):
Sharp → coniunctio; unitary world; strata linkage; psychoid / synchronicity neighborhood; physics analogy; non-causal relations; dissent / pluralism worry.

3. Academic elucidation

In analytical psychology unus mundus is the unitary-world image bridging psyche and matter, historically tied to alchemy and synchronicity. Lexica (Sharp redirect; Samuels p. 157) supply paraphrase;

4. Lexicon

Sharp (1991)

Unus mundus. See coniunctio.

(Sharp, 1991)

Samuels, Shorter & Plaut (1986) — unus mundus p. 157 (

unus mundus Jung’s research into ALCHEMY and the evolution of concepts such as PSYCHIC REALITY, the PSYCHOID UNCONSCIOUS and SYNCHRONICITY, led him to bring in the pre-Newtonian idea of the unus mundus or unitary world. This concept, or IMAGE, is used by Jung to suggest that each stratum of existence is intimately linked with all the other strata, rather than that there is a transcendent or supraordinate plan for the coordination of separate parts… The unus mundus is a world view which is essentially at odds with causal explanation…

(Samuels, Shorter, & Plaut, 1986, p. 157) 158).

5. CW concordance — sample, not exhaustive

Dual via coniunctio (CONI-1–4 already stamped; no rewrite): 1946/1966 · 1955–1956/1970.

See also: coniunctio; synchronicity; psychoid; opposites; union-of-opposites; unconsciousness; self.

References

Jung, C. G. (1966). The psychology of the transference. In H. Read, M. Fordham, G. Adler, & W. McGuire (Eds.), The collected works of C. G. Jung (R. F. C. Hull, Trans.) (2nd ed., Vol. 16). Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1946)

Jung, C. G. (1970). Mysterium coniunctionis. In H. Read, M. Fordham, G. Adler, & W. McGuire (Eds.), The collected works of C. G. Jung (R. F. C. Hull, Trans.) (2nd ed., Vol. 14). Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1955–1956)

Samuels, A., Shorter, B., & Plaut, F. (1986). A critical dictionary of Jungian analysis. Routledge.

Sharp, D. (1991). Jung lexicon: A primer of terms & concepts. Inner City Books.