This fic used to be titled The Past Again. I never liked that title. I came up with it because I wanted to post my story
and needed a title. All the time I was writing, I was searching for another title. I was thinking really hard about I had a
little epiphany, if you will. So I changed my title to Synchronicity. I thought I'd give my reasoning, in case anyone was
interested:
I took a Theories of Personality class last semester, and one of the theorists we studied in depth was Carl Jung. He has a principle in his theory called synchronicity. Synchronicity accounts for events that are related through meaning rather than by the usual cause-and-effect sequence. In other words, synchronicity explains meaningful simultaneity. For example, say you and a friend have a conversation about someone you haven't heard from since you graduated from high school/middle school/ college (a long while). The very same night, you get a phone call out of the blue from this person. Talking with your friend about this person did not make them call you, nor was the call anticipated by your conversation. Nonetheless, these two events are linked together for us because of the meaning.
This may not sound like it totally relates to my fic, but bear with me for a second. Connected to synchronicity in Jung's theory is a level of consciousness called the collective unconscious. The collective unconscious holds images and ideas that have been common to all members of humanity since the beginning of time. These images and ideas are not concrete. Rather, they are possibilities of action, predispositions to responses, and potentialities of shaping experiences. Jung believed that for the collective unconscious, time is relative: future, present, and past are one. To use my previous example, you might find the coincidence of the person calling a little uncanny, but to the collective unconscious, it was a certainty - it experienced both your conversation and the phone call simultaneously.
In my opinion, Synchronicity embodies more of what I was trying to do with the story than The Past Again does. Also, I just think that The Past Again was a really BLAH title - it doesn't intrigue me at all.
Thanks for reading!
I took a Theories of Personality class last semester, and one of the theorists we studied in depth was Carl Jung. He has a principle in his theory called synchronicity. Synchronicity accounts for events that are related through meaning rather than by the usual cause-and-effect sequence. In other words, synchronicity explains meaningful simultaneity. For example, say you and a friend have a conversation about someone you haven't heard from since you graduated from high school/middle school/ college (a long while). The very same night, you get a phone call out of the blue from this person. Talking with your friend about this person did not make them call you, nor was the call anticipated by your conversation. Nonetheless, these two events are linked together for us because of the meaning.
This may not sound like it totally relates to my fic, but bear with me for a second. Connected to synchronicity in Jung's theory is a level of consciousness called the collective unconscious. The collective unconscious holds images and ideas that have been common to all members of humanity since the beginning of time. These images and ideas are not concrete. Rather, they are possibilities of action, predispositions to responses, and potentialities of shaping experiences. Jung believed that for the collective unconscious, time is relative: future, present, and past are one. To use my previous example, you might find the coincidence of the person calling a little uncanny, but to the collective unconscious, it was a certainty - it experienced both your conversation and the phone call simultaneously.
In my opinion, Synchronicity embodies more of what I was trying to do with the story than The Past Again does. Also, I just think that The Past Again was a really BLAH title - it doesn't intrigue me at all.
Thanks for reading!