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Human Virtuality and Digital Life
Philosophical and Psychoanalytic Investigations
Taschenbuch von Richard Frankel (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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Winner of the Gradiva® Best Book Award 2022, and the Courage to Dream Book Prize 2023 from the Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association!

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.
Winner of the Gradiva® Best Book Award 2022, and the Courage to Dream Book Prize 2023 from the Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association!

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.
Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781138505155
ISBN-10: 1138505153
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Frankel, Richard
Krebs, Victor J.
Hersteller: Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Books on Demand GmbH, In de Tarpen 42, D-22848 Norderstedt, info@bod.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Richard Frankel (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.08.2021
Gewicht: 0,483 kg
Artikel-ID: 126500217
Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781138505155
ISBN-10: 1138505153
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Frankel, Richard
Krebs, Victor J.
Hersteller: Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Books on Demand GmbH, In de Tarpen 42, D-22848 Norderstedt, info@bod.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Richard Frankel (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.08.2021
Gewicht: 0,483 kg
Artikel-ID: 126500217
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