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IN THE HOLOGRAM, the whole is contained in each part. Dividing it into two produces not two halves of the whole but two wholes. This remarkable fact, which sounds like a miracle performed by some semi-divine religious figure or a fantastic delusion, defying all our commonsense notions of reality, is an invention that all can see, demonstrating an advance in science. Any tiny fragment of the hologram will still reproduce the whole image. This invention may be seen as a clever toy, a new art form, or as having uses such as protecting the identity of credit cards. But some have taken it as exemplifying a new paradigm in science, a new way of understanding the universe. They believe it to be a model, not only of the physical world but of thought itself, meaning by ‘thought’ the whole of mental life, memory, emotion, perception, imagination and intuition as well as cognition.
Such claims should not go unnoticed by analytical psychologists. Jung, in his association with Pauli especially, was alive to the developments in physics and quantum mechanics which led to this new paradigm. I think Jung, had he lived to see it, would have been delighted with the hologram, perhaps much as he was by the world clock dreamed by one of his patients. Jung, on the whole, confined himself to using the findings of modern physics as analogies for psychic processes. At the same time he could see that, in dealing with subatomic particles, the physicists were dealing with entities which could not directly be represented, just as ultimately the archetypes could not be represented. At the same time, his hope was that, increasingly, physics and psychology would come closer together and be shown to be, if not proved to be, alternative descriptions of the