Psychoanalysis in times of technoculture

Some reflections on the fate of the body in virtual space

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8971837
AutoresAklilu Lemma (0000-0002-9465-9054, Director of Psychological Therapies Unit, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust,, autor de correspondencia), Alessandra Lemma (Director of Psychological Therapies Unit, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust)
Año2015
Volumen96
Número3
Páginas569-582
Fecha de publicación2015-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1745-8315.12348
PMID26173880
OpenAlexW2096363745
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas19
Referencias citadas18

This article discusses psychoanalysis in times of technoculture. We cannot escape that this generation is growing up in a network culture where communication is mediated and digital connectivity along with different strands of virtuality are now an integral part of our quotidian practices. Global networks impact on identity formation: groups of individuals now organize and validate their experience as a community virtually. Cyberspace is not a homogenous space. We need to consider the contingent relations that exist between this space and what it affords in terms of representation and interaction. And as we do so we need to keep firmly in mind that what transcends the online and offline spaces is the individual. In thinking about the world of cyberspace as a potential space for experimentation that may facilitate psychic elaboration we need to consider not whether this is right or wrong, good or bad, but whether psychically the individual can cope with what is being presented or enacted within a given virtual space. This is why generalities are of limited value. This is why we need a psychoanalytic lens to focus on how technology can interact for better or for worse with particular psychic economies

Aesthetics · Cyberspace · Epistemology · Political science · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Representation (politics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · The Internet · Value (mathematics · Virtuality (gaming · World Wide Web · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications