Technosubjectivities: Human, Cyborg, Robot and Avatar in Contemporary Psychoanalysis

By Laura Ezquerra

In Technosubjectivities, Ezquerra invites readers to reconsider the core concepts of psychoanalysis--unconscious, body, drive, transitional object, psychosexuality, and the conditions of symbolization--in light of virtual environments and technologically mediated experiences.

Drawing on clinical experience and contemporary culture, the author proposes an innovative psychoanalytic approach for a post-organic clinic. She argues that a new psychoanalytic field is emerging at the crossroads of hybridization, technoculture, and processes of subjectivation. The book explores how subjectivation unfolds at the intersection of human and non-human agencies, animate and inanimate objects, artificial and natural forms, and realities and virtualities. It weaves conceptual argument with detailed clinical case studies, including the encounter between a psychoanalyst and the world's first state-recognised cyborg.

This ground-breaking book is essential reading for clinicians dealing with technology-mediated lives, psychoanalysts, neuroscientists, and readers interested in philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology, art, technology, and the humanities and to anyone wishing to reflect on the transformations of our time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1041074751
• ISBN13: 9781041074755
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 162 Pages