The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology

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.

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 Issevenler, 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

David M. Goodman is an Associate Dean at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development, the Director of the newly launching Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics, and serves on the faculty in three Boston College departments: Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology, Philosophy, and Formative Education. Matthew Clemente is a husband and father. He is a Research Fellow in the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics at Boston College and the Coeditor in Chief of the Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion.