Technology and the Soul (Collected English Papers) Vol. 2 [Perfect Paperback]

Wolfgang Geigerich (Author)

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Series: Collected English Papers | Publication Date: May 15, 2007

The Collected English Papers of Wolfgang Giegerich, Vol. 2. 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 an depth psychological approach to contemporary technological civilization and our relationship with it.

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About the Author

WOLFGANG GIEGERICH, Ph.D., is a Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice in Woerthsee near Munich, Germany, who has lectured and published widely. A speaker at the Eranos conferences, he has taught as Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, and is the founding editor of GORGO, a German journal of archetypal psychology. His most recent books available in English are The Neurosis of Psychology, Dialectics & Analytical Psychology: The El Capitan Canyon Seminar (co-authored with David L. Miller and Greg Mogenson) and The Soul's Logical Life: Towards a Rigorous Notion of Psychology.

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• Perfect Paperback: 356 pages
• Publisher: Spring Journal, Inc (May 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1882670434
• ISBN-13: 978-1882670437
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,617,709 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Technology & The Soul, January 26, 2012

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This review is from: Technology and the Soul (Collected English Papers) Vol. 2 (Perfect Paperback)

This book is an absolute treasure for the mind.

As the title says, it deals with technology and the soul, and I can't recommend it enough to anyone interested in our contemporary world, philosophy, anthropology or psychology.

The book comes as a collection of 13 papers, some of them previously published in different journals and publications from 1983 to 2004. This is the index of the contents:

. Introduction: The object of psychology.
. 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.
. Chapter 8: The burial of the soul in technological civilization.
. Chapter 9: The occidental soul's self-immurement 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: comments on the state of Jungian psychology today.

As the author himself states, and in a very Hegelian vein, ""soul" here is a mythological expression for what one might call the mode or the logic of our being-in-the-world. The logic of our being-in-the-world is nothing that belongs to the individual. On the contrary, the individuals participate in the mode of being-in-the-world that is dominant at a given time", and he offers through the whole book an acute and solid analysis of the development of western civilization, i.e., the move from ritual to logos, on the basis of its philosophic and christian tradition.

What this book says may be true or not, but it undoubtedly will make you think.

I'd like to give many thanks to the author for having written this book.