Feminisms, Technology and Depth Psychology

Leslie Gardner, PhD, is a fellow in the department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex; she has published articles on depth psychology and a book, Rhetorical Investigations: CG Jung and GB Vico (2014), as well as co-convened conferences and edited books of the conference feminisms and depth psychology, and classics and depth psychology. She heads up an international literary agency, Artellus Ltd in London, UK. She is assisting as co-editor on a new series of Jung and politics with Routledge. Her upcoming work is on ghostwriting, commissioned by Routledge.Catriona Miller is a professor in Media at Glasgow Caledonian University and author of Cult TV Heroines (2020). She has also published on film theory, feminism, and mythology from a depth psychology perspective. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies and a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy.Roula-Maria Dib, PhD, is an award-winning Jungian/literary scholar, poet, educator, and editor. She is the founding director of the London Arts-Based Research Centre, founding editor of literary and arts journal, Indelible, and creative producer of literary event series, Indelible Evenings, as well as Jungian virtual salon, Psychreative.

• Introduction Part 1: Technological Invasions: Reproduction and Regeneration in Time 1. Polydore Vergil and the Immortal Jellyfish (or, how to read queer history without any queers) 2. The Rupture of the Sacred: Intrusion of Technology into the Birth Process. 3. Speculative reproduction -the technology of 'giving birth' Part Two: Cultural Product and Female Aspects 4. Evolution and enigma: on the origins of obstetric violence 5. Re-constellating the Great Mother: Images of the Gynoid in Contemporary SF TV Drama 6. Quantum Fiction: The Presentation of Eros in a World of Lagos Part Three: Political impact of technology on female worlds 7. Zoom as the Cuckoo Bird 8. A Transcendent Future: A ‘Discovery" of Nonbinary Stories’ Part Four: Enactment- performative demonstrations 9. Wonder Vision (Adapted from a talk which was even more chaotic than this) 10.Eve and Ava at the Flaming Sword Café: the genesis of a very short play