This work outlines the key tenets of Ian's reworking of a range of influential 20th Century psychologists and psychologies as a means to address a centuries long, and gradually worsening, epidemic of psycho-spiritual suffering linked to terms such as 'disenchantment', 'chronic ennui', 'saturnine melancholoy', 'tristitia', 'anomie', 'alienation', 'taedium vitae', 'acedia', 'nausea', 'the Spleen' and so on. These maladies associated with these terms were thoroughly explored in Ian's 2000 publication, 'The Angel of Luxury and Sadness: the Emergence of the Normative Ennui Cycle'. This work represents a speculative theory of the psyche that adapts to the larger paradigm shifts of society and culture that helped mutate the problem of 'chronic ennui'. In short: Transpersonal Relational Psychology responds to the socio-cultural influences linked to our our modern epidemic of 'chronic ennui.'
This piece belongs to Historical, Psychological, Sociological and Political Writings, Vol. 4 ofThe Collected Works of Ian Irvine (Hobson). (Nonfiction)
Please note: this is a longish (i.e. around 25,000 words long) 9 Chapter theoretical/academic text that works to reimagine a range of complex psychological theories, in particular. The end goal, however, is a new model of the psyche based on alterations/revisions to theoretical elements found in Jungian, Freudian, Reichian, Bioenergetic, Groffian, Transpersonal, etc. psychologies. The work also concludes certain arguments about the woeful psycho-historical situation evident in many Westernised societies - so there is a sociological element, also, to the analysis. In short it is not a light 'pop psychology' read and should be avoided by readers looking for easily digestable non-academic material.
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