Fantasy and the Virtual Mind, digital original edition

Fantasy and the Virtual Mind, digital original edition
Author: Andre Nusselder
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0262318792


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In this BIT, André Nusselder uses the core psychoanalytic notion of fantasy to examine our relationship to computers and digital technology. Lacanian psychoanalysis considers fantasy to be an indispensable “screen” for our interaction with the outside world; Nusselder argues that, at the mental level, computer screens and other human-computer interfaces incorporate this function of fantasy: they mediate the real and the virtual.