The digital age on the couch : psychoanalytic practice and new media
By: Lemma, Alessandra
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616.8914 GA AS Associative illusions of memory : | 616.8914 GR MI Mind over mood : | 616.891425 HA ND Handbook of mindfulness : | 616.89170285 LE DI The digital age on the couch : | 616.98 CH ST Stress management and prevention : | 616.98 SA WE Well body, well earth. | 616.9803 PE MO Modern industrial hygiene : |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction this modern life -- Outside in -- Imagined embodiments, lived embodiments -- The black mirror : becoming sexual in the digital age -- The disintermediation of desire : from 3D(esire) to 2D(esire) -- Inside out -- Mediated psychotherapy -- Digital transference and the therapist's anonymity -- Conclusion -- References.
The Digital Age is on the couch. Working today, it is essential that clinicians understand the world we live in. The transition from an industrial economy to an information economy impacts not just the external structure of society and commerce, but also the internal psychic economies of our brains and, inevitably, how clinicians conceptualise the analytic setting in which they practice as therapists and analysts.
The Digital Age on the Couch seeks to understand more about how new technologies interact with the prerogatives of an individual’s internal world, how they may alter psychic structure itself in fundamental ways and the implications this may have for the individual’s functioning and for the operation of society. This book attempts, from the perspective of a working clinician, to make some sense of this. The impact of mediation via technology and the consequent disintermediation of the body represent central themes throughout, as they impact on the experience of embodiment, on the ‘work of desire’ and on the way new media influences psychoanalytic practice.