Description
Well-known Jungian analyst, author and lecturer Erel Shalit passed away in early 2018. This is his book, The Human Soul (Lost) in Transition At the Dawn of a New Era, published posthumously.
“The aim of this book,” wrote Shalit, “is to present a depth psychological perspective on phenomena pertaining to the present, postmodern era. As such, its origins are in the depths; symbolically, in the depth of the waters, in which the sacred is reflected. Likewise, this book centers around the image, which has travelled from the forbidden zone of the transcendent command ‘make no graven image,’ through the interiority of the human soul, to become an exteriorized, computerized, robot-generated image that virtualizes as well as augments reality.”
This book explores the changing character of the relationship between us humans and the image, and the dramatic impact this has in post-modern culture.
Table of Contents
Preface 5
Introduction 7
Part I. Extracting the Image 11
Chapter 1. The Fish and the Fisherman: The Birth and Development of the Image 13
Aion and Chronos 17
The Fish in the Water 19
The Fisherman 25
Ensoulment, Image, and Dreaming 27
Soul and Reflection 32
Chapter 2. From Craftsman to Computer 35
Bezalel and the Golem 38
The Automaton, Responsibility, and Evil 45
Part II. The Grand Transition – From Modern to Postmodern 51
Chapter 3. From Perfect Machine to the Tower of Babel 53
Chapter 4. From Auschwitz to Hiroshima 61
Chapter 5. The Empty Mirror [Without an Image] 69
Chapter 6. The Science of Imagination and the Imaginary Illness 73
Part III. The Post‑Modern Condition of Transiency 79
Chapter 7. Self, Image and Representation 85
Chapter 8. Self and Imitation 95
Chapter 9. Self in Exile 103
Chapter 10. Transience and the Transient Personality 109
Always Online—Never Offline 110
Speed without Digestion 110
Fleeing the Center 111
Memory Deleted 113
ERA Remoteness from Reality; The Vitro Life 113
Nonlocality 114
Photographic Reality 116
Chapter 11. The Transient Personality 119
Chapter 12. Will Watson’s Grandchild Write Poetry?… And What Tears Will it Cry? 125
Moderenity versus Postmodernity 135
Chapter 13. The Battle of Character 143
No Body versus Sum‐1 143
The Masks of Transiency: From Ego‐Self to Persona‐Shadow 149
Chapter 14. Recollection and Recollectivization: The Transient Personality in Search of Memory 153
On Memory 153
Memory and the Mass Man 157
Part IV. Restorying the Self 161
Chapter 15. Self, Story, and Transience in the Postmodern Condition 163
In the Beginning 163
The Story of the Self ’s Manifestation 164
The Epic Side of Truth 167
Story and Information 169
The Transient Personality 171
The Meaning and the Message 174
Chapter 16. Image, Meaning, and the Healing Self 175
Chapter 17. Revisiting the Well at the Dawn of Life Nancy Swift Furlotti 179
Introduction 179
Forgotten Worlds, Mythic Stories 183
Myth and Ritual 186
A Wise Council at The Dawn of Life 187
The Rainforest Weeps 192
Conclusion 196
Chapter 18. From Transiency to Healing in the Postmodern Condition 199
The Red Book and the Spirit of the Depths Nancy Swift Furlotti 199
Chapter 19. Will Fishes Fly in Aquarius—Or Will They Drown in the Bucket? 211
Chapter 20. The Council of Elders 219
Think Tanks and Forums of Ethics 222
Conclusion 225
Bibliography 229
Index 237
Contributing Author ‐ Nancy Swift Furlotti 245
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