Psychotechnical Becomings: Psychoanalysis, Identity, Desire, and Mourning in the Age of AI and Digital Mediation
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2026
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 270
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 98530
- ISBN 13 : 9781041217749
- ISBN 10 : 1041217749
Table of Contents
Foreword - Peter Fonagy
Introduction: Beyond Content: When the Medium Stages Becoming
Part I. Algorithms, Desire, and the Reconfigured Self
1. Rethinking Subjectivity and Development in the Digital Age
2. Dialogues on the Digital Psyche
3. From Working Through to Clicking Through: Adolescence, Algorithms and the Search for Coherence
4. At the Meniscus of Self-Understanding: Rethinking the Examined Life in an Age of Artificial Intelligence
5. The Mediation of Desire
6. On Not Having It All: The Fetishization of Trans Women in Online Pornography
Part II. Screen to Skin: From Defensive Fictions to Embodied Presence
7. The Truth in Lying
8. Mediated Presence: Bodies and Screens in the Analytic Space
9. The Digital Superego: Embodiment Under the Algorithmic Gaze
10. From Prosthesis to Presence
11. Mourning, Melancholia, and Machines
Conclusion: Psychoanalysis at the Interface