Wolfgang Giegerich

Technology and the Soul - From the Nuclear Bomb to the Worldwide Web

Collected English Papers, Vol. II

375 pages, ISBN 1-882670-43-4 / 978-1-882670-43-7, Spring Publications

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.

Giegerich's English Papers are collected in four volumes: The Neurosis of Psychology (Vol. 1), Technology and the Soul (Vol. 2), Soul-Violence (Vol. 3), and The Soul Always Thinks (Vol. 4).

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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

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Wolfgang Giegerich , PhD, is a Jungian analyst who after many years in private practice in Stuttgart and later in Wörthsee, near Munich, now lives in Berlin. He has lectured and taught in many countries. His more than two hundred publications in several languages include numerous books, among them The Soul's Logical Life: Towards a Rigorous Notion of Psychology (Peter Lang, 1998; 4th ed. 2007), What Is Soul? and Neurosis: The Logic of a Metaphysical Illness as well as the previous five volumes of his Collected English Papers (all published by Spring Journal Books).