The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology

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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. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction: Technology and Its Discontents Part I: Everything has Two Handles: Technological Ambivalence 1 Touching Trauma: Therapy, Technology, Recovery 2 Mediating the Subject of Psychoanalysis: A Conversation on Bodies, Temporality, and Narrative 3 Dreaming Life in the Digital Age 4 The Soul Behind Your Eyes: Psychic Presence in the Digital Screen 5 The Time of Technology: Plato’s Clock and Psychoanalysis 6 Psychoanalysis has Lost Its Touch and Other Reflections from a Technologic Age Part II: The Philosopher’s Stone: Converting Theory into Practice 7 Auxiliary Organs and Extimate Implants: Coming to Terms with Technology from a Psychoanalytical Perspective 8 Foucault’s Care of Self: A Response to Modern Technology 9 Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Reflections on the Other as Monster 10 Lifepower as a Metaphor in Edith Stein’s Philosophy of Psychology: Salient Questions for Psychoanalysis and Transhumanism 11 Technology in Tenebris: Heidegger on the Paradoxes of Truth, Freedom, and Technology Part III: Through the Looking-Glass: Online Fantasies, Social Media, and the Screen 12 No One Gets Out of Here Alive: Trading Technologies of Human Exceptionalism for Dense Temporalities of Transcorporeal Zooms 13 The Intimacy of the Virtual Distance 14 Abject Evil: Technology and the Banality of the Thanatonic 15 The Analytic Fourth: Telepsychotherapy Between Opportunities and Limitations 16 From the Analog to the Digital Unconscious: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of Psychoanalytic Media Studies 17 Could I Interest You in Everything All of the Time? A Bionian Analysis of Social Media Engagement 18 Hashtag Mania or Misadventures in the #Ultrapsychic 19 Internet Memes and the Face of the Other 20 Who am I Really? Illusions and Splits in the Mirror 21 Emotional Trauma and Technology: A Clinical Story of Traumatic Isolation and Technologically Mediated Psychoanalytic Therapy 22 Touch (Screened): Technological Trauma, Excarnation, and Dissociation in a Digital Age Part IV: Animating the Inorganic: Analyzing Artificial Intelligence 23 AI and Madness 24 Algorithmic Dedication and Mercurial Psychoanalysis: Subject, Subjectivation, and the Unconscious in the Digital World-Environment 25 Uncanny Traces: Villiers De I ’Isle-Adam’s Critique of the Metaphysics of Selfhood 26 Auto Intimacy 27 Mental Health Treatment in the Information Age: Exploring the Functions of Artificial Intelligence and Human Subjectivity in Psychotherapy Part V: Future of an Intrusion: Technology, Politics, and the Road Ahead 28 Ironically into the End of an Era, with Continual Reference to Kierkegaard 29 Streaming Desire and the Post-Machine World 30 Cruel Optimization: Interrogating Technology’s Optimization of Human Being 31 Room: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action: The Use of Digital Technology as a Vehicle in Psychoanalysis Index