Psyche, Culture and the New Science

Taylor & Francis

Psyche, Culture and the New ScienceThe Role of PN\nAuthor(s): E. W. F. Tomlin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138654020, 978-1138654020\nSynopsis\nOriginally published in 1985, this distinguished and constructive critique of modern culture introduced into our language a brand-new term, PN, standing for psychic nutrition, which at the time promised to become a household expression.\n\nDrawing on his first-hand knowledge of oriental civilizations; on discoveries of Jung, especially his concept of psychic energy; on the ideas of the cultural anthropologists; and not least on the New Science implicit in microphysics and microbiology, [url] Tomlin, whose philosophical books have been translated into several languages, shows how the human psyche requires its own kind of nourishment just as urgently as the body needs food. In the industrial societies of the West, this need has often been ignored. Reformers, in their e.