ABSTRACT
The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of human subjectivity in the technological age and how psychoanalysis can help us better understand human life.
Presented in five parts, David M. Goodman and Matthew Clemente collaborate with an international community of scholars and practitioners to consider how psychoanalytic formulations can be brought to bear on the impact technology has had on the facets of human subjectivity. Chapters examine how technology is reshaping our understanding of what it means to be a human subject, through embodiment, intimacy, porn, political motivation, mortality, communication, interpersonal exchange, thought, attention, responsibility, vulnerability, and more.
Filled with thought-provoking and nuanced chapters, the contributors approach technology from a diverse range of entry points but all engage through the lens of psychoanalytic theory, practice, and thought.
This book is essential for academics and students of psychoanalysis, philosophy, ethics, media, liberal arts, social work, and bioethics. With the inclusion of timely chapters on the coronavirus pandemic and teletherapy, psychoanalysts in practice and training as well as other mental health practitioners will also find this book an invaluable resource.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|81 pages
Everything Has Two Handles
chapter 2|17 pages
Mediating the Subject of Psychoanalysis
part II|63 pages
The Philosopher's Stone
chapter 7|12 pages
Auxiliary Organs and Extimate Implants
chapter 10|13 pages
Lifepower as a Metaphor in Edith Stein's Philosophy of Psychology
chapter 11|12 pages
Technology in Tenebris
part III|128 pages
Through the Looking-Glass
chapter 12|14 pages
No One Gets Out of Here Alive
chapter 16|12 pages
From the Analog to the Digital Unconscious
chapter 17|10 pages
Could I Interest You in Everything All of the Time?
chapter 21|7 pages
Emotional Trauma and Technology
chapter 22|9 pages
Touch (Screened)
part IV|71 pages
Animating the Inorganic
chapter 24|9 pages
Algorithmic Dedication and Mercurial Psychoanalysis
chapter 27|14 pages
Mental Health Treatment in the Information Age
part V|44 pages
Future of an Intrusion