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.

"Open this handbook with great care, for in it you will find a mirror (at times, a black mirror) reflecting a contemporary vision and analysis of yourself, your world, and the technologies that shape you. Psychoanalysis becomes the perfect tool for exploring how we live with and are lived by technology, and this book digs deep into the theory, practice, and process of living in a world transformed by the machines we create." -Jack Foehl, President, Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute"If one were able to go back in time and tell Louis XIV, in all his glory, that in our times one can have a warm home equipped with hot running waters throughout the winter and a cool breeze in his bedchamber all summer long and do so effortlessly; or the means to illuminate every corner in his rooms and every room in his house at will; or to have any meal or drink his appetite might fancy delivered to him within the hour at his door; or have his coffee made at the press of a button; or to have the uncanny ability to summon in his presence the representations of absent people, whether living or dead, hear them talking and talk with them as if they were present, and, in short, all of the other abilities modern technology makes possible to us, he would say that these are powers unfathomable even to a Sun King, to be assigned perhaps only to a god, even if, as Freud aptly put it, a prosthetic god. And if one were able to go back in time and tell King Solomon, in all his wisdom, that such god-like powers have been given to all, from haughty rulers to humble parlormaids, and given equally, he would question whether our powerful devices have made the latter any happier or the former wiser than him. It takes an analytic approach, as Freud again rightly notes, to untangle the tele-technological enigma. And it is to our great benefit that this handbook begins the work of doing just that."- John Panteleimon Manoussakis, Associate Professor of Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross

• Introduction: Technology and Its Discontents David M. Goodman and Matthew ClementePART IEverything Has Two Handles: Technological Ambivalence 1 Touching Trauma: Therapy, Technology, Recovery Richard Kearney2 Mediating the Subject of Psychoanalysis: A Conversation on Bodies, Temporality, and Narrative Patricia T. Clough, Bibi Calderaro, Iréne Hultman, Talha İşsevenler, Sandra Moyano-Ariza, and Jason Nielsen3 Dreaming Life in the Digital Age Richard Frankel4 The Soul behind Your Eyes: Psychic Presence in the Digital Screen Victor J. Krebs5 The Time of Technology: Plato’s Clock and PsychoanalysisEric R. Severson6 Psychoanalysis Has Lost Its Touch and Other Reflections from a Technologic Age Matthew ClementePART IIThe Philosopher’s Stone: Converting Theory into Practice7 Auxiliary Organs and Extimate Implants: Coming to Terms with Technology from a Psychoanalytical PerspectiveHub Zwart8 Foucault’s Care of Self: A Response to Modern Technology Hannah Lyn Venable9 Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Reflections on the Other as Monster Robert D. Romanyshyn10 Lifepower as a Metaphor in Edith Stein’s Philosophy of Psychology: Salient Questions for Psychoanalysis and Transhumanism Gabriel J. Costello11 Technology in Tenebris: Heidegger on the Paradoxes of Truth, Freedom, and Technology William J. HendelPART IIIThrough 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 Gentile13 The Intimacy of the Virtual Distance Susi Ferrarello14 Abject Evil: Technology and the Banality of the Thanatonic Brian W. Becker15 The Analytic Fourth: Telepsychotherapy between Opportunities and Limitations Osmano Oasi, Roberto Viganoni and Chiara Rossi16 From the Analog to the Digital Unconscious: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of Psychoanalytic Media Studies Jacob Johanssen17 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 Goetz18 Hashtag Mania or Misadventures in the #ultrapsychic Stephen Hartman19 Internet Memes and the Face of the Other 241Lewis Thurston and Nancy Thurston20 Who Am I Really? Illusions and Splits in the Mirror Susan E. Schwartz21 Emotional Trauma and Technology: A Clinical Story of Traumatic Isolation and Technologically Mediated Psychoanalytic Therapy Peter Maduro22 Touch (Screened): Technological Trauma, Excarnation, and Dissociation in a Digital Age M. Mookie C. ManaliliPART IVAnimating the Inorganic: Analyzing Artificial Intelligence 23 AI and Madness Anestis Karastergiou24 Algorithmic Dedication and Mercurial Psychoanalysis: Subject, Subjectivation, and the Unconscious in the Digital World-EnvironmentJean Marc Tauszik25 Uncanny Traces: Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s Critique of the Metaphysics of Selfhood Manolis Simos26 Auto Intimacy Hannah Zeavin27 Mental Health Treatment in the Information Age: Exploring the Functions of Artificial Intelligence and Human Subjectivity in Psychotherapy Lisa FinlayPART VFuture of an Intrusion: Technology, Politics, and the Road Ahead 28 Ironically into the End of an Era, with Continual Reference to Kierkegaard Samuel C. Gable29 Streaming Desire and the Post-Machine World Heather Macdonald30 Cruel Optimization: Interrogating Technology’s Optimization of Human Being Stephen Lugar31 ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action: The Use of Digital Technology as a Vehicle in Psychoanalysis Hattie Myers and Isaac Slone

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.

"Open this handbook with great care, for in it you will find a mirror (at times, a black mirror) reflecting a contemporary vision and analysis of yourself, your world, and the technologies that shape you. Psychoanalysis becomes the perfect tool for exploring how we live with and are lived by technology, and this book digs deep into the theory, practice, and process of living in a world transformed by the machines we create." -Jack Foehl, President, Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute"If one were able to go back in time and tell Louis XIV, in all his glory, that in our times one can have a warm home equipped with hot running waters throughout the winter and a cool breeze in his bedchamber all summer long and do so effortlessly; or the means to illuminate every corner in his rooms and every room in his house at will; or to have any meal or drink his appetite might fancy delivered to him within the hour at his door; or have his coffee made at the press of a button; or to have the uncanny ability to summon in his presence the representations of absent people, whether living or dead, hear them talking and talk with them as if they were present, and, in short, all of the other abilities modern technology makes possible to us, he would say that these are powers unfathomable even to a Sun King, to be assigned perhaps only to a god, even if, as Freud aptly put it, a prosthetic god. And if one were able to go back in time and tell King Solomon, in all his wisdom, that such god-like powers have been given to all, from haughty rulers to humble parlormaids, and given equally, he would question whether our powerful devices have made the latter any happier or the former wiser than him. It takes an analytic approach, as Freud again rightly notes, to untangle the tele-technological enigma. And it is to our great benefit that this handbook begins the work of doing just that."- John Panteleimon Manoussakis, Associate Professor of Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross

• Introduction: Technology and Its Discontents David M. Goodman and Matthew ClementePART IEverything Has Two Handles: Technological Ambivalence 1 Touching Trauma: Therapy, Technology, Recovery Richard Kearney2 Mediating the Subject of Psychoanalysis: A Conversation on Bodies, Temporality, and Narrative Patricia T. Clough, Bibi Calderaro, Iréne Hultman, Talha İşsevenler, Sandra Moyano-Ariza, and Jason Nielsen3 Dreaming Life in the Digital Age Richard Frankel4 The Soul behind Your Eyes: Psychic Presence in the Digital Screen Victor J. Krebs5 The Time of Technology: Plato’s Clock and PsychoanalysisEric R. Severson6 Psychoanalysis Has Lost Its Touch and Other Reflections from a Technologic Age Matthew ClementePART IIThe Philosopher’s Stone: Converting Theory into Practice7 Auxiliary Organs and Extimate Implants: Coming to Terms with Technology from a Psychoanalytical PerspectiveHub Zwart8 Foucault’s Care of Self: A Response to Modern Technology Hannah Lyn Venable9 Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Reflections on the Other as Monster Robert D. Romanyshyn10 Lifepower as a Metaphor in Edith Stein’s Philosophy of Psychology: Salient Questions for Psychoanalysis and Transhumanism Gabriel J. Costello11 Technology in Tenebris: Heidegger on the Paradoxes of Truth, Freedom, and Technology William J. HendelPART IIIThrough 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 Gentile13 The Intimacy of the Virtual Distance Susi Ferrarello14 Abject Evil: Technology and the Banality of the Thanatonic Brian W. Becker15 The Analytic Fourth: Telepsychotherapy between Opportunities and Limitations Osmano Oasi, Roberto Viganoni and Chiara Rossi16 From the Analog to the Digital Unconscious: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of Psychoanalytic Media Studies Jacob Johanssen17 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 Goetz18 Hashtag Mania or Misadventures in the #ultrapsychic Stephen Hartman19 Internet Memes and the Face of the Other 241Lewis Thurston and Nancy Thurston20 Who Am I Really? Illusions and Splits in the Mirror Susan E. Schwartz21 Emotional Trauma and Technology: A Clinical Story of Traumatic Isolation and Technologically Mediated Psychoanalytic Therapy Peter Maduro22 Touch (Screened): Technological Trauma, Excarnation, and Dissociation in a Digital Age M. Mookie C. ManaliliPART IVAnimating the Inorganic: Analyzing Artificial Intelligence 23 AI and Madness Anestis Karastergiou24 Algorithmic Dedication and Mercurial Psychoanalysis: Subject, Subjectivation, and the Unconscious in the Digital World-EnvironmentJean Marc Tauszik25 Uncanny Traces: Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s Critique of the Metaphysics of Selfhood Manolis Simos26 Auto Intimacy Hannah Zeavin27 Mental Health Treatment in the Information Age: Exploring the Functions of Artificial Intelligence and Human Subjectivity in Psychotherapy Lisa FinlayPART VFuture of an Intrusion: Technology, Politics, and the Road Ahead 28 Ironically into the End of an Era, with Continual Reference to Kierkegaard Samuel C. Gable29 Streaming Desire and the Post-Machine World Heather Macdonald30 Cruel Optimization: Interrogating Technology’s Optimization of Human Being Stephen Lugar31 ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action: The Use of Digital Technology as a Vehicle in Psychoanalysis Hattie Myers and Isaac Slone