Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 465 g
Desire and Technology in Psychoanalysis and Culture
Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 465 g
Reihe: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
ISBN: 978-1-138-84921-1
Verlag: Routledge
American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize Winner for 2018 (Theoretical Category)
We have entered the age of perversion, an era in which we are becoming more like machines and they more like us.The Age of Perversion explores the sea changes occurring in sexual and social life, made possible by the ongoing technological revolution, and demonstrates how psychoanalysts can understand and work with manifestations of perversion in clinical settings.
Until now theories of perversion have limited their scope of inquiry to sexual behavior and personal trauma. The authors of this book widen that inquiry to include the social and political sphere, tracing perversion’s existential roots to the human experience of being a conscious animal troubled by the knowledge of death. Offering both creative and destructive possibilities, perversion challenges boundaries and norms in every area of life and involves transgression, illusion casting, objectification, dehumanization, and the radical quest for transcendence.
This volume presents several clinical cases, including a man who lived with and loved a sex doll, a woman who wanted to be a Barbie doll, and an Internet sex addict. Also examined are cases of widespread social perversion in corporations, the mental health care industry, and even the government. In considering the continued impact of technology, the authors discuss how it is changing the practice of psychotherapy. They speculate about what the future may hold for a species who will redefine what it means to be human more in the next few decades than during any other time in human history.
The Age of Perversion provides a novel examination of the convergence of perversion and technology that will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, social workers, mental health counselors, sex therapists, sexologists, roboticists, and futurists, as well as social theorists and students and scholars of cultural studies.
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Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development
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Weitere Infos & Material
Part One: Theories of Perversion and Three Clinical Cases
Chapter 1. Psychoanalysis and Perversion
Chapter 2. Guys and Dolls: A Pygmalian Fantasy
Chapter 3. Soul in Silicone (How Dolls Become Real)
Chapter 4. Gals and Dolls: Fake Babies and Living Barbies
Part Two: Widening the Scope of Perversion: Existential and Techno-Social Domains
Chapter 5. Perversion: Historical, Existential, and Social
Chapter 6. Technology and its Discontents: The Dark Side of Cyberworld
Chapter 7. The Institutionalization of Human Evil: 1984 as a Paradigm for Perversion
Chapter 8. Black Mirror