‘Kaos / Kosmos: The Shadow of Light and the Light of the Shadow. A Tribute for the 150th Anniversary of C.G. Jung’s Birth’
Presentation
No balance is ever such as to protect us from the disorienting experience of Chaos. When this occurs, when the Cosmos collapses, life and existence lose the coordinates that allow any identity to reproduce itself along familiar and predictable lines of meaning: we no longer live in the same world, for it is the very idea of the world that fails. But no transformation that constitutes a genuine step forward in the process of clarifying who we are and the world in which we live can do without the fall of that order that makes us persuaded of ourselves: we must lose ourselves in order to find ourselves again. The question is whether there are limits to our ability to withstand the experience of chaos when a way out seems impractical. Today, chaos appears as the condition of normality, despite the action of pervasive technology that orders time in a cumulative and progressive sense, calling us to a direction and a sense. Yet it is precisely this direction and meaning that is at fault when we question the reverberations they concretely have on our lives: are we better with ourselves, are we capable of community, do we still know what respect is?