Reflections in the Digital Mirror

ABSTRACT

The Human Soul (Lost) in Transition at the Dawn of a New Age is Erel Shalit’s final book. It was completed posthumously by Nancy Swift Furlotti, who also contributed two chapters of original material. The book works as a whole to bring a Jungian perspective to more fully understand the psychological and ecological risks inherent in the digital age, including the changing phenomenology of the image and development of the transient personality. The book is a call to present and future generations to maintain a reflective attitude and a connection with the natural world as we become increasingly dependent on technology.

KEY WORDS:

• digital age
• internet
• postmodern
• shadow
• Shalit
• soul
• technology
• technopoly
• transiency

Notes

1. For a review of these books see Steve Zemmelman, “Containing a Jungian Light: The Books of Erel Shalit,” Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture 92 (2015): 431–448.

^2. The papers presented at this conference were published as Erel Shalit and Murray Stein (eds.), Turbulent Times, Creative Minds: Erich Neumann and C. G. Jung in Relationship (1933–1960) (Asheville, NC: Chiron Publications, 2016).

^3. A paper based on my presentation at this conference was published as Steve Zemmelman, “Inching Towards Wholeness: C. G. Jung and his Relationship to Judaism,” Journal of Analytical Psychology 62(2, 2017): 247–262.

^4. For a review of the book on Jacob and Esau, see Steve Zemmelman, “C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann: Conflict, Philia, and Finding the Other in Oneself,” review of Jacob and Esau: On the Collective Symbolism of the Brother Motif, by Erich Neumann, Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche 10(3, 2016): 77–82.

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Steve Zemmelman

STEVE ZEMMELMAN, MSW, PhD, is an analyst member of both the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and is certified as both a child and adult analyst. He is an associate clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and maintains a private practice of Jungian analysis and depth psychotherapy in Berkeley and San Francisco. He has written several reviews of Erel Shalit’s books and related material that has been published in Jung Journal, Spring, and the Journal of Analytical Psychology. Correspondence: [email protected].