Archetypes in Religion and Beyond - A Practical Theory of Human Integration and Inspiration - Robert M. Ellis
e. Projection as Left-Hemisphere Over-Dominance
Archetypes in Religion and Beyond - A Practical Theory of Human Integration and Inspiration - Robert M. Ellis
Robert M. Ellis [+]
Middle Way Society
Robert M. Ellis is author of a range of interdisciplinary books on Middle Way Philosophy, both within and beyond Buddhism. These have included The Buddha’s Middle Way: Experiential Judgement in His Life and Teaching (Equinox Publishing, 2019) and Archetypes in Religion and Beyond: A Practical Theory of Human Integration and Inspiration (Equinox Publishing, 2022). He is also founder of the Middle Way Society and of Tirylan House Retreat Centre in Wales.
Description
The over-dominance of the left pre-frontal cortex provides an understanding of the basis of projection, as it involves the dominance of representations. Diachronic archetypal meaning is difficult to access under this over-dominance, given the left hemisphere’s inability to experience time passing, so it gets reduced to projections that ‘exist’ or ‘don’t exist’.