Persona, Shadow, and Cheap Coherence: A Jungian Map of the Soul in the Digital Age (Read Through Structural Intelligence)
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| author | Jovanovic, Vladisav |
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| contents | <p>Carl Jung offered not a science of the psyche but a topology: a map of how inner life organizes itself into persona, shadow, projection, and individuation. This paper rereads that topology through Structural Intelligence (SI) and the presence model developed in the adjacent work: not to “prove Jung,” but to show what his map becomes under the conditions of the digital age, where coherence is cheap and mirrors are everywhere. The central claim is simple: much of what we call modern confusion is not a lack of information but an excess of coherence that avoids contact. In Jungian terms, persona inflates, shadow thickens, and projection becomes the default interface with reality. Platforms and AI do not create these dynamics, but they amplify them by rewarding performance and supplying endless narrative substitutes. Synchronicity is treated here not as evidence but as a coherence-event: meaningful to the psyche, dangerous to epistemic integrity if mistaken for proof. The aim is not therapy or instruction. It is philosophical clarity: to describe how the old map behaves when the environment industrializes attention, identity, and symbolic resonance.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | Persona, Shadow, and Cheap Coherence: A Jungian Map of the Soul in the Digital Age (Read Through Structural Intelligence) Jovanovic, Vladisav AI ethics conversational AI human–AI interaction epistemic trust trust calibration hallucination sycophancy misinformation accountability corrigibility epistemic integrity uncertainty belief revision persuasion decision-making coherence <p>Carl Jung offered not a science of the psyche but a topology: a map of how inner life organizes itself into persona, shadow, projection, and individuation. This paper rereads that topology through Structural Intelligence (SI) and the presence model developed in the adjacent work: not to “prove Jung,” but to show what his map becomes under the conditions of the digital age, where coherence is cheap and mirrors are everywhere. The central claim is simple: much of what we call modern confusion is not a lack of information but an excess of coherence that avoids contact. In Jungian terms, persona inflates, shadow thickens, and projection becomes the default interface with reality. Platforms and AI do not create these dynamics, but they amplify them by rewarding performance and supplying endless narrative substitutes. Synchronicity is treated here not as evidence but as a coherence-event: meaningful to the psyche, dangerous to epistemic integrity if mistaken for proof. The aim is not therapy or instruction. It is philosophical clarity: to describe how the old map behaves when the environment industrializes attention, identity, and symbolic resonance.</p> |
| title | Persona, Shadow, and Cheap Coherence: A Jungian Map of the Soul in the Digital Age (Read Through Structural Intelligence) |
| topic | AI ethics conversational AI human–AI interaction epistemic trust trust calibration hallucination sycophancy misinformation accountability corrigibility epistemic integrity uncertainty belief revision persuasion decision-making coherence |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18761080 |