synchronicity/seriality

[Mark A Mandel]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Laurence Horn wrote:

#So anyway, midwife toads and suicides aside, it appears that what we
#and everyone else have been calling synchronicity was originally
#seriality.  The OED has the historically accurate
#
#SYNCHRONICITY
#The name given by the Swiss psychologist, C. G. Jung (1875-1961), to
#the phenomenon of events which *coincide in time* and appear
#meaningfully related but have no discoverable causal connection.
#[emphasis added]

Not everyone! This is the meaning I was told when I learned the word,
and the only one I have ever used it with.

Of course, being a language freak, I've always been conscious of the
meaning of the morphemes... but no, it must be just me, 'cause we're all
language freaks here.

-- Mark A. Mandel