Psychoanalysis of Technoscience: Symbolisation and Imagination

by Hub Zwart

This book presents a psychoanalysis of technoscience. Basic concepts and methods developed by Freud, Jung, Bachelard and Lacan are applied to case histories (palaeoanthropology, classical conditioning, virology). Rather than by disinterested curiosity, technoscience is driven by desire, resistance and the will to control. Moreover, psychoanalysis focusses on primal scenes (Dubois' quest for the missing link, Pavlov's discovery of the conditioned reflex)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3643910509
• ISBN13: 9783643910509
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Lit Verlag
• Length: 208 Pages