OUT NOW FROM MIMESIS INTERNATIONAL 'DISLOCATED SUBJECT' BY LORENA PRETA
-About the book-
“The time is out of joint”. This famous line from William Shakespeare’s
Hamlet helps to describe the impression of de-centering, of
deconstruction, which we currently live and experience. This phenomenon
is caused by various factors and while it is happening worldwide, partly
as a result of globalization, it is perceived in different ways in the
various cultures and countries in the world. We find ourselves in front
of an hybrid individual, the product of different cultures blending
together. Such is the novelty and the spread of new means of
communication and of social organization, that we might be witnessing
the rise of a new type of subject: a bearer of transformations, the
extent of which is difficult to measure. The contemporary world is
dominated by radically new media, virtual space, technologies that
subvert the perception of our body, post-humanism tending towards the
cyborg, a cult of the body and youth, new definitions of sexuality, of
procreation and of the family – all this reveals to us an overflowing of
the subject in the direction of a dislocated fragmentation, lying far
beyond its traditional boundaries and identity.
-About the author-
Lorena Preta is the Director of the International Research Group
Geographies of Psychoanalysis. Full member of Italian Psychoanalytical
Society (SPI) and of International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA).
Past Editor in chief (2001-2009) of the journal “Psyche” (Journal of
psychoanalysis and culture of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society). For
many years Scientific Consultant and Director of Spoletoscienza
(Meetings of science and culture at the Festival of Two Worlds in
Spoleto). Author of many publications including: Immagini e metafore
della scienza (1993); Nuove geometrie della mente (1999); La brutalità
delle cose. Trasformazioni psichiche della realtà (2015); Geographies of
Psychoanalysis / Encounters between cultures in Teheran (2015);
Cartographies of Unconscious / A new Atlas for psychoanalysis (2016).
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