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Technosubjectivities
Human, Cyborg, Robot and Avatar in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
In Technosubjectivities, Ezquerra invites readers to reconsider the core concepts of psychoanalysis-unconscious, body, drive, transitional object, psychosexuality, and the conditions of symbolization-in light of virtual environments and technologically mediated experiences.
Drawing on clinical experience and contemporary culture, the author proposes an innovative psychoanalytic approach for a post-organic clinic. She argues that a new psychoanalytic field is emerging at the crossroads of hybridization, technoculture, and processes of subjectivation.
The book explores how subjectivation unfolds at the intersection of human and non-human agencies, animate and inanimate objects, artificial and natural forms, and realities and virtualities.
It weaves conceptual argument with detailed clinical case studies, including the encounter between a psychoanalyst and the world's first state-recognised cyborg.