The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology

Editor : David M. Goodman, Editor : Matthew Clemente

The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2023
  • Cover : Hardback
  • Pages : 406
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 97311
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032050690
  • ISBN 10 : 1032050691

Table of Contents


Introduction: Technology and Its Discontents
David M. Goodman and Matthew Clemente

PART I
Everything Has Two Handles: Technological Ambivalence


1. Touching Trauma: Therapy, Technology, Recovery
Richard Kearney

2. Mediating the Subject of Psychoanalysis: A Conversation on Bodies, Temporality, and Narrative
Patricia T. Clough, Bibi Calderaro, Iréne Hultman, Talha İşsevenler, Sandra Moyano-Ariza, and Jason Nielsen

3. Dreaming Life in the Digital Age
Richard Frankel

4. The Soul behind Your Eyes: Psychic Presence in the Digital Screen
Victor J. Krebs

5. The Time of Technology: Plato’s Clock and Psychoanalysis
Eric R. Severson

6. Psychoanalysis Has Lost Its Touch and Other Reflections from a Technologic Age
Matthew Clemente

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
Hub Zwart

8. Foucault’s Care of Self: A Response to Modern Technology
Hannah Lyn Venable

9. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Reflections on the Other as Monster
Robert D. Romanyshyn

10. Lifepower as a Metaphor in Edith Stein’s Philosophy of Psychology: Salient Questions for Psychoanalysis and Transhumanism
Gabriel J. Costello

11. Technology in Tenebris: Heidegger on the Paradoxes of Truth, Freedom, and Technology
William J. Hendel

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
Katie Gentile

13. The Intimacy of the Virtual Distance
Susi Ferrarello

14. Abject Evil: Technology and the Banality of the Thanatonic
Brian W. Becker

15. The Analytic Fourth: Telepsychotherapy between Opportunities and Limitations
Osmano Oasi, Roberto Viganoni and Chiara Rossi

16. From the Analog to the Digital Unconscious: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of Psychoanalytic Media Studies
Jacob Johanssen

17. Could I Interest You in Everything All of the Time?: A Bionian Analysis of Social Media Engagement
Karley M.P. Guterres, A. Taiga Guterres and Julia Goetz

18. Hashtag Mania or Misadventures in the #ultrapsychic
Stephen Hartman

19 Internet Memes and the Face of the Other 241
Lewis Thurston and Nancy Thurston

20. Who Am I Really? Illusions and Splits in the Mirror
Susan E. Schwartz

21. Emotional Trauma and Technology: A Clinical Story of Traumatic Isolation and Technologically Mediated Psychoanalytic Therapy
Peter Maduro

22. Touch (Screened): Technological Trauma, Excarnation, and Dissociation in a Digital Age
M. Mookie C. Manalili

PART IV
Animating the Inorganic: Analyzing Artificial Intelligence


23. AI and Madness
Anestis Karastergiou

24. Algorithmic Dedication and Mercurial Psychoanalysis: Subject, Subjectivation, and the Unconscious in the Digital World-Environment
Jean Marc Tauszik

25. Uncanny Traces: Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s Critique of the Metaphysics of Selfhood
Manolis Simos

26. Auto Intimacy
Hannah Zeavin

27. Mental Health Treatment in the Information Age: Exploring the Functions of Artificial Intelligence and Human Subjectivity in Psychotherapy
Lisa Finlay

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
Samuel C. Gable

29. Streaming Desire and the Post-Machine World
Heather Macdonald

30. Cruel Optimization: Interrogating Technology’s Optimization of Human Being
Stephen Lugar

31. ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action: The Use of Digital Technology as a Vehicle in Psychoanalysis
Hattie Myers and Isaac Slone

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