Formative Media: Psychoanalysis and Digital Media Platforms

Author(s) : Steffen Kruger

Formative Media: Psychoanalysis and Digital Media Platforms

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2024
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 234
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 97804
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032308531
  • ISBN 10 : 1032308532

Table of Contents


Acknowledgements
Series Preface

Introduction – The Forms of Formative Media
1. Outrageous Growth and the Eros of Facebook
2. The Feeding Tube – YouTube, Oral Cravings, and the Question of Addiction
3. Anxious Narcissism – Instagram, Self-Image Practices, and the Persistent Question of Narcissism
4. Compromised Formations – Google, Obsession and the Desublimation of Knowledge
5. The Joke That Isn’t Funny Anymore – Twitter, Aggression and the Perfect Shitstorm
6. Conclusion – ‘Platforming’ the Digital Subject

Bibliography

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