June 16, 2016
8:00 - 9:30 PM EDT
Will
Watson's Grandchild Write Poetry?
Erel Shalit, PhD - Israel
We are all witnessing, as well as taking part in the
enormous leaps in the cyber development of our era. We have handed over
the progress of the world to the brilliant minds of tomorrow,
whose bright vision is counterbalanced by apocalyptic fears of the
future. The children and the young of today are born
into tomorrow's world of multiple realities, and a seemingly
boundaryless space of associations and virtuality.
This forces us to reconsider ego-boundaries,
reality-testing, soul and interiority, and to discern the pathologies
of our era, such as 'photographic reality,' and the transient
personality. N.B. Watson in the title refers to IBM's superior
artificial intelligence computer. He (?) can read millions of documents
within seconds, and is a Jeopardy quiz winner, having instant access to
more encyclopedias than most of us know exist.
Dr.
Erel Shalit is a Jungian psychoanalyst in Tel Aviv. He is a past
Presidentof the Israel Society of Analytical Psychology, founding
Director of the Jungian Analytical Psychotherapy Program at Bar Ilan
University, and past Director of the Shamai Davidson Community Mental
Health Clinic, at the Shalvata Psychiatric Centre in Israel.
He is the author of several books
The Cycle of Life: Themes and Tales of the Journey; Enemy,
Cripple & Beggar: Shadows in the Hero's Path; The Complex: Path of
Transformation from Archetype to Ego; The Hero and His Shadow:
Psychopolitical Aspects of Myth and Reality in Israel, and the novella
Requiem: A Tale of Exile and Return; and with Nancy Swift Furlotti, he
has edited
The Dream and its
Amplification.
He is the editor of Jacob and Esau: On the Collective Symbolism of
the Brother Motif, a previously unpublished book by Erich
Neumann, and Turbulent
Times, Creative Minds - Erich Neumann and C.G. Jung in Relationship,
co-edited with Murray Stein, as well as the author of a
forth coming book on The
Human Soul in Transition, at the Dawn of a New Era.
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