Epilogue: User and Used: Psychoanalytic Observations on Relentless Technological Innovation and the Human Being.
Capitalism and the development of technology are inextricably interlinked, from capitalism's origins. In the name of the "reality principle", psychoanalysts may throw up their hands in the face of the juggernauts of technology and capitalism, avoiding examination of the exploitative and extractive e...
| Publicado en: | Psychoanalytic Inquiry Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 57 - 64 |
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Jan2023
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