ZOOMing In: Is Psyche Alive Online?

This Jungian Life Podcast · May 7, 2020 · 1h 4m

DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠We have moved our lives online. But can we experience authentic human connection through virtual technology? Can we date, mourn, or have psychoanalysis on a screen? If screens offer some surprising intimacies—close-ups of wedding vows and eulogies—they also deprive us of embodied participation. Staying at home has made us newly eager to socialize—separately. Dating means conversation, not cuddling. We enter the homes of colleagues, clients, and even newscasters, but despite this implicit amity we’re not guests. Psychoanalysts…