We are extremely pleased to bring you this incredible webinar from our dear friends at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. If film has been the screen on which psyche projects her stories for the past hundred years (as John Beebe has suggested), the Internet and other electronic media such as video games may be the screen of the present and future. Following Marshall McLuhan, the Internet is a “medium,” i.e., an externalized extension of our minds. We see and enact ourselves through it. Media are a large part of what modern culture has become, and as depth psychology remembers Jung’s life-long quest to heal his own culture it becomes a central task to see the Internet and its electronic world in depth and to look for the soul that may be hiding or trapped in it. We argue that the Internet can be poisonous or life-giving, that it can make or destroy psyche. Social media exemplify the personal psychological level of the Internet, but where is the deeper soul? We seek an answer to this vital question by first reviewing the fantasy of conscious machines (robots, etc.) traced by Victoria Nelson (2001). Viewing the recent film “Tron Legacy” (2010) mythically, we will reflect on the possibility that the virtual world may embody anima that we must work to bring back to our post-industrial culture.
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