Technology and the Soul

Acknowledgments. Sources and Abbreviations. Introduction: The Object of Psychology. PART I: 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 II: 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. Index.