Autopœsis
by Scott Von
Autopœsis is a word of the new aeon. A Hypertext of Spirit. While physical and biological entities can attain self-producing and self-organising states resisting entropy called autopoiesis, only humans can “write” the self into existence with a will to power, co-creating with the gods, as Friedrich Nietzsche claimed was the only option for humanity to avoid nihilism and evolve into superhuman states.
This process was further delineated by Aleister Crowley in his own magickal method of crossing the abyss into spiritual awakening and love under will. Yet we must not only channel the gods, but become them, through the refinement of our singularity as self in our magnum opus. Carl Jung’s own madness took him beyond psychoanalysis to modern man’s search for a soul, and yet his Red Book remained hidden in his lifetime, just as Crowley only reluctantly published the Book of the Law.
In the beginning was the word… And that remained with the magical acts of pioesis that the ancient Greek Presocratics and Chinese Taoists imbued in their sacred writing which was at once a thought and an act. Yet after millennia the madness of reason cracked and broke. From Antonin Artaud’s call to have done with the judgement of God to George Bataille’s generic sovereignty, modernity remains an unfinished project.
Autopœsis is a journey from imposed speech to inspired writing. A psychoanalytic cure and a magickal record. Channeled out of the ashes of crisis, assembled into a multiplicity of styles, and finally wrangled into a treatise. This psychodynamic literary praxis merges with medicine, psychiatry, and pedagogy as transformational healing and evolution in the dialectic of the phenomenology of spirit.
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Table of Contents
Autopœsis I: The Present
Chapter I: Being Here
Chapter II: Dark Night of the Soul
Autopœsis II: A Little Book of Faith
Chapter I: Journal of a Forgotten Man
Chapter II: The Story of Dionysos
Autopœsis III: Hatred of Love
Chapter I: His Story
Chapter II: Her Story
Autopœsis IV: Reduced to Tears
Chapter I: The State of Things
Chapter II: The Communicants
Chapter III: The Subject
Chapter IV: The Pass
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Hardcover Edition
674 pages. Black PPC cover with silver-grey print to front and spine.
ISBN: 9781940625638
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About the Author
Scott Von, OMD PhD, is a doctor, professor, psychoanalyst, philosopher, poet, artist, and scientist. He has treated and supervised patient care for over two decades at the New Clinic for Integral Medicine & Psychiatry (newclinic.org) in NY and LA, which he founded. He has also served as founder and director of Analytica (analytica.org), the first virtual international psychoanalytic training and research institute. In his work, Dr Von focuses on the integration of psychoanalysis, medicine, and neuropsychiatry.
Over the past four decades he has studied and trained with Eastern and Western spiritual masters from Buddhist, Taoist, Gnostic, and Magick traditions. His Spiritual Revolution seminar and podcast provides a capstone project in bringing his life’s work to heal humanity and transform the planet to the global community.
