The Crisis of the Self in the Age of Information

Computers, Dolphins and Dreams
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-64086-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 600 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1994, in The Crisis of the Self in the Age of Information Raymond Barglow shows how contemporary technological environment furnish the unconscious with internal objects that hark back to a time in our lives prior to personal boundary formation and identity. The consequence is that our technological involvements help to disrupt and dismantle the ideal of the unified and sovereign self that in the past technology fostered.

Throughout the book Raymond Barglow interweaves critical theory and psychoanalysis with an examination of artistic representations, media imagery and dreams to explore the conflictual dynamics of contemporary self-information and self-representation. This book is an important work for scholars and researchers of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and clinical psychology.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barglow, Raymond

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Crisis of the Self 1. The Technological Mirror 2. Narcissism, Mastery, and Identity 3. Three Dreams 4. Individualism: The Perplexing Project Part II: Technological Objects and Divided Subjects 5. Boundary 6. Subjectivity 7. Ethics 8. Recognition 9. Identification Part III: Internal Colonization and Response 10. The Logic of Colonial Organization 11. Information Processing Psychology 12. Technology and Authority 13. Restoration of the Cells Conclusion Notes Index