Tugwell, Sharon (2021) What lurks beneath: the erotic charge of the Laplanchean unconscious and the digital object. Psychoanalysis Culture and Society 26 , pp. 165-180. ISSN 1088-0763.
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Abstract
This paper takes a feminist approach to rethinking the significance of user-device interaction, attachments and dependency. It suggests that Jean Laplanche’s resignificantion of ‘seduction’, the function of the ‘enigmatic message’, and reconfiguration of sexuality as a ‘charge and tension’, are particularly useful for theorising the relationship that smartphones, as digital objects, have to unconscious sexuality and psychic life. The paper suggests that the draw of user-device interactions is connected to the rhythms of unconscious sexuality and that this opens up the space for thinking beyond subject-object dichotomies and ultimately offers hope for a shift in the cultural imaginary.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Jean Laplanche, smartphones, unconscious sexuality, psychic object, seduction |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Sharon Tugwell |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Aug 2020 12:18 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Jul 2025 01:06 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/32781 |
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