Media and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Introduction - Softcover

Johanssen, Jacob; Kruger, Steffen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1913494578 ISBN 13: 9781913494575

Verlag: Karnac Books, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

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 Kruger 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. 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 Kruger 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.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Jacob Johanssen is an AssociateProfessor in Communications at St. Mary’s University and co-editorof Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. His previous booksinclude Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture: Audiences, Social Media,and Big Data.

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 Kruger 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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Karnac Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1913494578
• ISBN 13: 9781913494575
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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