Technology and the Soul
The internet, television, and the nuclear bomb have completely transformed man's relation to the world. Though regarded by many as soul-less, these technological realities are the real gods and archetypes of the soul today. This work presents a depth psychological approach to contemporary technological civilization and our relationship with it. This is the second volume of Wolfgang Giegerich's Collected English Papers and is the product of over three decades of critical reflection by one of archetypal psychology's most brilliant theorists.
Introduction: The Object of Psychology
Part I: The Nuclear Bomb Papers
- Chapter 1 Saving the Nuclear Bomb
- Chapter 2 The Nuclear Bomb As A Psychological Reality
- Chapter 3 The Significance of Our Nuclear Predicament for Analytical Psychology and of Analytical Psychology for Our Nuclear Predicament
- Chapter 4 The Nuclear Bomb and the Fate of God: On the First Nuclear Fission
- Chapter 5 The Invention of Explosive Power and the Blueprint of the Bomb: A Chapter in the Imaginal Pre-History of our Nuclear Predicament
- Chapter 6 The Rocket and the Launching Base. Or: The Leap from the Imaginal into the Outer Space Named 'Reality'
- Chapter 7 The Fabrication of Time
Part II Technological Civilization and "Medial" Modernity
- Chapter 8 The Burial of the Soul in Technological Civilization
- Chapter 9 The Occidental Soul&s Self-Immuration in Plato's Cave
- Chapter 10 The Function of Television and the Soul's Predicament
- Chapter 11 The World Wide Web From the Point of View of the Soul's Logical Life
Coda: A Little Light, to Be Carried Through Night and Storm