Technology and the soul : from the nuclear bomb to the World Wide Web

Introduction: The object of psychology. Part 1 - The nuclear bomb papers. 1 Saving the nuclear bomb. 2 The nuclear bomb as a psychological reality. 3 The significance of our nuclear predicament for analytical psychology and of analytical psychology for our nuclear predicament. 4 The nuclear bomb and the fate of God: on the first nuclear fission. 5 The invention of explosive power and the blueprint of the bomb: a chapter in the imaginal pre-history of our nuclear predicament. 6 The rocket and the launching base, or The leap from the imaginal into the outer space named "Reality". 7 The fabrication of time. Part 2 - Technological civilization and "medial" modernity. 8 The burial of the soul in technological civilization. 9 The occidental soul's self-immurement in Plato's cave. 10 The function of television and the soul's predicament. 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

'...these papers examine what must be regarded as the most all-encompassing presence of our lives today: technological civilization. Living within technology, we now find that what we had formerly regarded as psychological phenomena--our feelings and emotions, images and dreams--have been superseded by phenomena bearing the predicates "artificial," "manufactured," and "virtual."...Far from being mere things among things, each of these has transformed the whole of man's world-relation. Though deplored by many as soulless on this account, these phenomena, it may be argued, are the real gods, the real archetypes, of the soul today. Psychologically, it is not what we think and feel about them that counts, but what they think, what they feel.'

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