Technosubjectivities: Human, Cyborg, Robot and Avatar in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (The International Psychoanalytical Association Current Challenges in 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. This ground-breaking book is essential reading for clinicians dealing with technology-mediat