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Media and Psychoanalysis is the first critical introduction to the psychoanalytic study of media – from film and TV, to social media, games and artificial intelligence and is an indispensable read for everyone who wants to understand the complex relationship between humans and technology today.

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Our lives are saturated by media that we use in conscious as well as unconscious ways. Spanning a wide range of examples, from film and TV to social media, from gaming to robots, this critical introduction guides readers through the growing field of psychoanalytic media studies in a clear and accessible manner. It is indispensable read for anyone who wants to understand the complex relationship between humans and technology today.Jacob Johanssen and Steffen Krüger show how media function beyond the rational. What does it mean to speak of narcissism in relation to social media? How have the internet and online platforms shaped work? How do apps like Tinder and online pornography shape our experience of love and sexuality? What are the potentials and pitfalls in our relationships with AI and robots? These questions, and many others, are discussed and answered in this book.Aimed at students, academics and clinicians, this book introduces readers to key media and the ways they have been approached psychoanalytically, and presents major concepts and debates led by scholars since the 1970s.

Author Biography

Jacob Johanssen is Senior Lecturer in Communications, St. Mary's University (London). His research interests include psychoanalysis and digital media, audience research, sexuality and digital media, affect theories, psychosocial studies and critical theory. He is co-editor of the Counterspace section of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society and a founder scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC).Steffen Krüger is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Media and Communication, and Head of the Screen Cultures MA programme and research initiative, both at the University of Oslo. He has authored numerous articles and book chapters in the interdisciplinary field of psychoanalysis and psychosocial studies, media and cultural studies as well as critical theory. He is contributing editor at Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society and The Journal of Psychosocial Studies.He edited and introduced Otto Rank's A Psychology of Difference: The American Lectures and co-edited, with E. J. Lieberman, The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Reality and Fantasy from Film to TV2. Social Media and Psycho-Social Relations3. Work, Neoliberalism, and the Perverse Pact4. Digital Politics and the Other5. Virtual Sexuality: From the Pre-oedipal to the Post-oedipal6. Videogames, AI, and the Vicissitudes of SymbiosisConclusionGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Review

'At last, the book we have been waiting for – that comprehensive text that bites off as much as it can chew from our ragingly complex contemporary media and technology landscape, and then subjects what it finds to the psychoanalytic gaze. From AI to iek, the authors have tamed a dizzyingly diverse body of theory into a brilliant, comprehensive, and significant text. Johanssen and Krüger have crushed it.' -- Dr Aaron Balick, psychotherapist and author of The Psychodynamics of Social Networking'This book is a tour de force. It takes us from early feminist psychoanalytic work on the media through the decades of TV and video games to the utter ubiquitous character of social media in the present of a neoliberalism that invades every corner of life. Its analysis is utterly compelling: at the same time erudite and accessible. I cannot recommend it highly enough to both scholars in the field and to students alike.' -- Valerie Walkerdine, Distinguished Research Professor, Cardiff University'Media and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Introduction is a major contribution to the field of media studies. It presents a very well-researched and accessible study of human engagement with contemporary media through the lens of psychoanalysis. … the authors explore how different media incite and organise our desire for recognition and forms of relating that involve a complex balance between activity and passivity, fantasy play and reality testing. They offer radically new ways to understand the social and political implications – positive and negative – arising from our interactions with these diverse forms.' -- Professor Emeritus Elizabeth Cowie, Film Studies, University of Kent

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Have we all become narcissists of the social media age? How have the internet and online platforms shaped the way we work? Is all of this technology positive or negative for our mental health? Or is it both at once?Spanning a wide range of examples, Psychoanalysis and the Media, guides readers through the growing field of psychoanalytic media studies in a clear and accessible manner. Steffen Krüger and Jacob Johnassen show how media function beyond the rational. This book is the first critical introduction to the psychoanalytic study of media - from film and TV, to social media, games and artificial intelligence and is an indispensable read for everyone who wants to understand the complex relationship between humans and technology today. 

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Have we all become narcissists of the social media age? How have the internet and online platforms shaped the way we work? Is all of this technology positive or negative for our mental health? Or is it both at once? Steffen Kruger and Jacob Johnassen show how media function beyond the rational. Spanning a wide range of examples, Psychoanalysis and the Media guides readers through the growing field of psychoanalytic media studies in a clear and accessible manner. This book is the first critical introduction to the psychoanalytic study of media - from film and TV, to social media, games and artificial intelligence and is an indispensable read for everyone who wants to understand the complex relationship between humans and technology today.

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At last, the book we have been waiting for - thatcomprehensive text that bites off as much as it can chew from our raginglycomplex contemporary media and technology landscape, and then subjects what itfinds to the psychoanalytic gaze. From AI to Zizek, the authors have tamed adizzyingly diverse body of theory into a brilliant, comprehensive, andsignificant text. Johanssen and Kr

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* The first critical introduction to psychoanalytic research on media - from film and TV, to social media, games and artificial intelligence.* Gives an overview of the main traditions and debates on psychoanalysis and the media from the second part of the 20th century up to the present.* Defines key technologies, such as social media and artificial intelligence, in relation to their psychosocial dimensions. * For everyone who wants to understand the complex relationship between humans and technology today.

Details ISBN1913494578 Format Paperback Year 2022 ISBN-13 9781913494575 Publication Date 2022-09-16 Imprint Karnac Books Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2022-09-16 UK Release Date 2022-09-16 ISBN-10 1913494578 Pages 320 Subtitle A Critical Introduction Alternative 9781913494582 DEWEY 302.23019 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2022-09-15 Publisher Karnac Books Author Steffen Kruger Illustrations 1 Illustrations, black and white We've got this

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