The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of human subjectivity in the technological age and how psychoanalysis can help us better understand human life.

David M. Goodman is an Associate Dean at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development, the Director of the newly launching Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics, and serves on the faculty in three Boston College departments: Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology, Philosophy, and Formative Education.

Matthew Clemente is a husband and father. He is a Research Fellow in the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics at Boston College and the Coeditor in Chief of the Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion.

Introduction: Technology and Its Discontents

David M. Goodman and Matthew Clemente

PART I

Everything Has Two Handles: Technological Ambivalence

1 Touching Trauma: Therapy, Technology, Recovery

Richard Kearney

2 Mediating the Subject of Psychoanalysis: A Conversation on Bodies, Temporality, and Narrative

Patricia T. Clough, Bibi Calderaro, Iréne Hultman, Talha Issevenler, Sandra Moyano-Ariza, and Jason Nielsen

3 Dreaming Life in the Digital Age

Richard Frankel

4 The Soul behind Your Eyes: Psychic Presence in the Digital Screen

Victor J. Krebs

5 The Time of Technology: Plato's Clock and Psychoanalysis

Eric R. Severson

6 Psychoanalysis Has Lost Its Touch and Other Reflections from a Technologic Age

Matthew Clemente

PART II

The Philosopher's Stone: Converting Theory into Practice

7 Auxiliary Organs and Extimate Implants: Coming to Terms with Technology from a Psychoanalytical Perspective

Hub Zwart

8 Foucault's Care of Self: A Response to Modern Technology

Hannah Lyn Venable

9 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: Reflections on the Other as Monster

Robert D. Romanyshyn

10 Lifepower as a Metaphor in Edith Stein's Philosophy of Psychology: Salient Questions for Psychoanalysis and Transhumanism

Gabriel J. Costello

11 Technology in Tenebris: Heidegger on the Paradoxes of Truth, Freedom, and Technology

William J. Hendel

PART III

Through the Looking-Glass: Online Fantasies, Social Media, and the Screen

12 No One Gets Out of Here Alive: Trading Technologies of Human Exceptionalism for Dense Temporalities of Transcorporeal Zooms

Katie Gentile

13 The Intimacy of the Virtual Distance

Susi Ferrarello

14 Abject Evil: Technology and the Banality of the Thanatonic

Brian W. Becker

15 The Analytic Fourth: Telepsychotherapy between Opportunities and Limitations

Osmano Oasi, Roberto Viganoni and Chiara Rossi

16 From the Analog to the Digital Unconscious: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of Psychoanalytic Media Studies

Jacob Johanssen

17 Could I Interest You in Everything All of the Time?: A Bionian Analysis of Social Media Engagement

Karley M.P. Guterres, A. Taiga Guterres and Julia Goetz

18 Hashtag Mania or Misadventures in the #ultrapsychic

Stephen Hartman

19 Internet Memes and the Face of the Other 241

Lewis Thurston and Nancy Thurston

20 Who Am I Really? Illusions and Splits in the Mirror

Susan E. Schwartz

21 Emotional Trauma and Technology: A Clinical Story of Traumatic Isolation and Technologically Mediated Psychoanalytic Therapy

Peter Maduro

22 Touch (Screened): Technological Trauma, Excarnation, and Dissociation in a Digital Age

M. Mookie C. Manalili

PART IV

Animating the Inorganic: Analyzing Artificial Intelligence

23 AI and Madness

Anestis Karastergiou

24 Algorithmic Dedication and Mercurial Psychoanalysis: Subject, Subjectivation, and the Unconscious in the Digital World-Environment

Jean Marc Tauszik

25 Uncanny Traces: Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's Critique of the Metaphysics of Selfhood

Manolis Simos

26 Auto Intimacy

Hannah Zeavin

27 Mental Health Treatment in the Information Age: Exploring the Functions of Artificial Intelligence and Human Subjectivity in Psychotherapy

Lisa Finlay

PART V

Future of an Intrusion: Technology, Politics, and the Road Ahead

28 Ironically into the End of an Era, with Continual Reference to Kierkegaard

Samuel C. Gable

29 Streaming Desire and the Post-Machine World

Heather Macdonald

30 Cruel Optimization: Interrogating Technology's Optimization of Human Being

Stephen Lugar

31 ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action: The Use of Digital Technology as a Vehicle in Psychoanalysis

Hattie Myers and Isaac Slone