ABSTRACT
In his book The Matrix of the Mind, Thomas Ogden suggests that since in the paranoid-schizoid position there is no experience of historical continuity, and history is, re-written every minute, objects do not die but disappear without a trace, not only from the present and future but also from the past. Black Mirror, produced by Charlie Brooker, is a British miniseries which deals with the impact of contemporary life, especially the intensive use of the internet or virtual reality, on the future of humanity. Amihud Gilead, in his book Saving Possibilities, proposes a new way of thinking about ancient question of body and mind. While the mental and the physical are not identical, they are most intimately connected. The complex psychophysical unity conceives of a distinction between the mentally ‘possible’ and the physically ‘actual’. Gilead suggests to conceive of the mental as belonging to the category of the possible, and the physical as ranging under the category of the actual.
