Technology as Symptom and Dream
There is a specificity and tightness . . . that is compelling . . . an excellent complement to Jung's historical reflections and alchemical studies.–HarvestYou 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 UniversityThe 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