Civilization in transition: Opening Address to the XI International Symposium of the Associação Junguiana do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 31 October 2003

Abstract

This opening address to the XI International Symposium of the Associação Junguiana do Brasil portrays a current state of paradigm shift in Western civilization as the concept of modernity is thrown into crisis. It traces the roots of this crisis to the ‘disenchantment of nature’ by science, which discredited animism without putting anything in its place; and uses the myth of Prometheus as a way of considering possible new paradigms.