ABSTRACT
Contemporary debates about posthumanism center on how developments in the fields of information technology, bioinformatics, and biotechnology are fundamentally transforming human minds, bodies, and identities. Engaging the influential accounts by Rose and Braidotti, this chapter critically examines the notion of posthuman identities and their personal, social, cultural, and political consequences. While the posthuman turn has impacted significantly on social practice and intellectual discourse to warrant serious attention from the social sciences, crucial conceptual limitations are identified with regard to key questions about human subjectivity, creativity, and identity in the light of these transformations. The psychoanalytically informed accounts of Bion and Bollas provide important resources for redressing these limitations.
