Technology: Alienation and Homecoming
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https://doi.org/10.65828/phg9q323Keywords:
Linear perspective vision, phenomenology, depth psychology, embodiment, alienation, homecomingAbstract
Drawing on the traditions of existential-phenomenology and depth psychology, this article explores the origins of technology in the 15th-century invention of linear perspective vision, and proposes that its continuing unconscious presence in contemporary life is as a tension of alienation and homecoming
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