‘IAJS Online Seminar <\/p>\n
“Posthumanism, Dissociation, and Jungian Psychology” with Glen Slater<\/p>\n
October 26, 2024 <\/p>\n
Moderator: Ipek Burnett<\/p>\n
Posthumanism has been called \u201ca focal term in contemporary debates at the crossroads of science, politics and the humanities\u201d and described as \u201cthe worldview that is ascendant\u201d in American culture. Highly influential among leading technologists and digital natives, the essence of posthumanism concerns the present and pending human merger with machines\u2014a fantasy-image moving to realization that presents a significant challenge to psychological life.<\/p>\n
In this presentation Glen explores the view that numerous psycho-social trends in the digital age are combining to secure this posthuman path. Drawing on my book, Jung vs. Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age (Winter Press\/Spring Publications, 2024), Glen will focus on the role dissociation plays in our current and prospective ties with technology and consider the way an absence of integrative psychological processing (Jung) creates states of fragmentation that invite such human-machine hybridization.<\/p>\n
Glen concludes with reflections on signs of a counter-cultural movement that might mitigate these technocratic trends and the role of Jungian psychology in such a movement. <\/p>\n
Bio: Glen Slater, Ph.D. has taught for over twenty-five years at Pacifica Graduate Institute in California, where he is currently the Associate Chair of the Jungian and Archetypal Psychology Program. He has written a number of articles and book chapters for Jungian publications, edited the third volume of James Hillman\u2019s Uniform Edition, Senex and Puer (Spring Publications, 2005) and co-edited the essay collection, Varieties of Mythic Experience (Daimon-Verlag, 2008). His research and writing interests concern Jung and film, the psychology of religion, and depth psychology and technology. His book Jung vs. Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age (Winter Press\/Spring Publications) was published early in 2024.’.
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