Deficit and excess in contemporary life

Deficit and Excess in Contemporary Life tackles the role of social media in present-day social interaction, its effects on subjectivation and link dynamics, and the consequences of these effects for psychoanalysis. We argue that, as analysts, “we are committed to a clinical practice where subjectivation is the result of a desiring position. Our responsibility, and our stance as analysts, is to support with our discourse the metaphor and the manifold voices of the erotic and vital aspects of humanness. It is in the context of analytic work that new places can be created, unprecedented potencies opened, and questions posed.”