Richard Frankel, Victor J. Krebs

Human Virtuality and Digital Life (eBook, PDF)

Philosophical and Psychoanalytic Investigations

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a psychoanalytic and philosophical exploration of how the digital is transforming our perception of the world and our understanding of ourselves.

Drawing on examples from everyday life, myth, and popular culture, this book argues that virtual reality is only the latest instantiation of the phenomenon of the virtual, which is intrinsic to human being. It illuminates what is at stake in our understanding of the relationship between the virtual and the real, showing how our present technologies both enhance and diminish our psychological lives. The authors claim that technology is a pharmakon - at the same time both a remedy and a poison - and in their writing exemplify a method that overcomes the polarization that compels us to regard it either as a liberating force or a dangerous threat in human life. The digital revolution challenges us to reckon with the implications of what is being called our posthuman condition, leaving behind our modern conception of the world as constituted by atemporal essences and reconceiving it instead as one of processes and change. The book's postscript considers the sudden plunge into the virtual effected by the 2020 global pandemic.

Accessible and wide-reaching, this book will appeal not only to psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, and philosophers, but anyone interested in the ways virtuality and the digital are transforming our contemporary lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351379724
• Artikelnr.: 62196623

Autorenporträt

Richard Frankel, is a faculty member and supervisor at The Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is a teaching associate and supervisor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and has a private practice in Cambridge, MA. He is the author of The Adolescent Psyche: Jungian and Winnicottian Perspectives.

Victor J. Krebs is professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and philosophical curator at VJKCuraduria Filosófica. He is author of La imaginación pornográfica: contra el escepticismo en la cultura, and editor (with William Day) of Seeing Wittgenstein anew.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Virtual Media 1. History of the Virtual 2. Dimensions of Virtuality
Part II: Evolving Conceptions of the Virtual and The Real 3. Two Stances on
the Virtual and Hyperreality 4. The Inexorable Flow Part III: Depth
Psychology in the Digital Age 5. The Virtual Within 6. The Virtual as
Potential Space 7. Virtuality and the Other Part IV: Philosophical Issues
of the Virtual 8. Ontological Centaurs 9. Digital Pharmacology 10. The
Tragedy of the Virtual POSTCRIPT: Digital Life in the Time of the Pandemic