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Bound by Infinities: Technology, Immediacy and Our Environmental Crisis.
Melmed, Michael L.
  • Melmed ML; , 29 Fifth Avenue Suite 1B, New York, NY, 10003, USA. melmed.michael@gmail.com.
Am J Psychoanal ; 80(3): 342-353, 2020 Sep.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1387599
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This paper explores the relationship between human desire, technology, and imagination, emphasizing (1) the phenomenology of this relationship, and (2) its ontological and ecological ramifications. Drawing on the work of Bion and Winnicott, the paper will develop a psychoanalytic container for attitudes contributing to our current climate-based crisis, paying special attention to the problematic effect technology has had on our sense of time and place. Many of our technologies stunt sensuous engagement, collapse psychic space, diminish our capacity to tolerate frustration, and blind us to our dependence on worlds beyond the human. In short, our technologies trouble our relationship to our bodies and other bodies. The paper argues that omnipotent fantasies organizing our relationship to technology, to each other, and to the nonhuman world, have cocooned us in a kind of virtual reality that devastates a sense of deep obligation to the environment.
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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Pneumonia, Viral / Psychoanalytic Interpretation / Psychoanalytic Therapy / Social Isolation / Coronavirus Infections / Pandemics / Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy Type of study: Observational study / Qualitative research Limits: Humans Language: English Journal: Am J Psychoanal Year: 2020 Document Type: Article Affiliation country: S11231-020-09258-8

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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Pneumonia, Viral / Psychoanalytic Interpretation / Psychoanalytic Therapy / Social Isolation / Coronavirus Infections / Pandemics / Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy Type of study: Observational study / Qualitative research Limits: Humans Language: English Journal: Am J Psychoanal Year: 2020 Document Type: Article Affiliation country: S11231-020-09258-8