Date of Award
2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Todd McGowan
Second Advisor
John Waldron
Abstract
Psychoanalysis, from Freud to Lacan and beyond, offers a unique toolkit for theorizing and understanding the visible and invisible effects of our collective digitization. In this project, I will work through central concepts of psychoanalytic theory – including Lacan’s three orders, the objet a, and more – while both rethinking our understanding of cyberspace via psychoanalysis and rethinking our understanding of psychoanalysis via cyberspace. Our subjectivity and our public discourse are today irrevocably intertwined with digital technology and cyberspace; psychoanalysis, as a theory centered on subjectivity and discourse, is an indispensable framework for reckoning with our plugged-in lives.
Language
en
Number of Pages
73 p.
Recommended Citation
Kennison, Grady, "The Sublime Object of Digitality: Psychoanalysis and Cyberspace" (2022). Graduate College Dissertations and Theses. 1560.
https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/1560