horror vacui: the meaning crisis of the globalized world (the case of the european union). a jungian approach
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Abstract
In its widest acceptation, globalization amounts to a progressive ‘interdependentization’ of the various areas, levels
and regions of human civilization. On account of globalization we are much more prone to becoming one, i.e. Humanity, than
in the previous epochs. But what does this mean or, in other words, what is the envisioned shape of this One humanity is
heading toward in the context of globalization? Is there in fact any meaning to it?
On closer examination, we might find that the issue of meaning was not very much addressed in the discussions
concerning globalization; certainly, it is not a major issue on the agenda of the institutions impactful upon this process. If it
did make the object of someone’s preoccupations, it was rather only of certain fringe thinkers, political and economic
authorities tended to ignore, given that there were always more immediate and practical concerns at hand.
However, an unasked question provides no answers and the lack of answers in this respect is very dangerous as it
involves the risk of creating, willingly or not, a world without meaning. Socio-cultural arguments in this respect are there to
be found by anyone willing to throw an unbiased look at our post-modern history: the industrial and technical revolutions went
hand in hand with an over-instrumentalization of our Weltanschauung that, along with its obvious positive consequences,
brought along homogenization, massification and alienation, in other words, lack of meaning. The European Union, for
example, has just started facing the practical consequences of ignoring this apparently purely theoretical problem: its current
legitimacy crisis, in favor of its more traditional state-nationalist counterparts, can be taken as a symptom thereof.
This paper is, first, an attempt at asking the question of meaning in the context of globalization and, second, to
provide it with an answer (mostly, but not exclusively, on the basis of Jung’s analytical psychology). The answer might prove
unsatisfactory but, on the other hand, as probably with most meaningful issues, the question itself is much more essential than
the answer.
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| Journal | Environmental monitoring and assessment |
| Year | 2018 |
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