The Conjunction of Opposites and the Technological Colonization of the Human Person

Lately I’ve been revisiting a couple of old friends: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (in particular his film adaptation of Richard Wagner’s Parsifal) and Carl Gustav Jung. As I wrote in my last blog, Syberberg makes use of Jung’s notion of the coniunctio oppositorum (the integration of the anima for men, the animus for women) in Parsifal by having a boy of about fifteen play the title character in the first half of the film and a young woman playing him in the second half. So I rewatched his Parsifal a...