Prologue: Address to the reader 1. Lift-off: we are all astronauts 2. The Window and the Camera 3. Self as spectator 4. Body as specimen 5. The abandoned body and its shadows 6. World as spectacle 7. Re-entry: paths of return
Robert D. Romanyshyn, professor of psychology at the University of Dallas, also teaches in the Arts and Humanities program at the University of Texas at Dallas, and is practising clinical psychologist. Author of Psychological Life: From Science to Metaphor, he has lectured and taught at numerous universities in the USA, Europe, and Africa.
"There is a specificity and tightness . . . that is compelling . .
. an excellent complement to Jung's historical reflections and
alchemical studies."
-"Harvest
"You have, in my opinion, produced one of the wisest and most
compellingly urgent books I have encountered in a long while. Thank
you for this book."
-Alice Jardine, Department of Romance Language and Literature,
Harvard University
"The cast of characters assembled in Romanyshyn's tale--from things
such as the telescope, television, and the telephone, to ideas like
the vanishing and the distance points, to figures such as
Brunelleschi and Alberti, Galileo and Harvey, Mesmer and Freud--is
as impressive as the story he tells is persuasive. The author asks
us to take nothing on his word but deftly directs us to our own
images on art and in life, in history and in the present day."
-"The Humanistic Psychologist, Autumn 1990
." . . a rare achievement."
-"Times Literary Supplement, July 1990
." . . any psychology that would be a psychology of culture must
include an appraisal of technology as a psychological event. This
is precisely what Romanyshyn has done by seeing technology as both
symptom and dream in this remarkable work."
-"Temenos
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