We shall consider the experience of enchantment through some personal accounts of deep wonder, and by exploring its chief characteristics, dynamics and conditions. These include relationality, participation, wildness, metaphor, and ‘concrete magic’ (Max Weber). We shall also consider its rootedness in more-than-human nature. Although enchantment is a universal human experience it is also a highly distinctive one, so it is important as well to recognise what it is not. That leads us to address disenchantment, especially deliberate disenchantment as part of the project of modernity, including glamour. We shall also begin to think through some of the implications of enchantment seriously for aspects of Jungian thought, both common ground and differences.
Enchantment – Wonder in Modern Life
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