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Lacan and Žižek in the Metaverse

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Publication date28/06/2024
Host publicationThe Arts and Computational Culture: Real and Virtual Worlds
EditorsT. Giannini, J.P. Bowen
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer
Pages373-387
Number of pages15
ISBN (electronic)9783031538650
ISBN (print)9783031538643
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Publication series

NameSpringer Series on Cultural Computing
PublisherSpringer
ISSN (Print)2195-9056

Abstract

This chapter considers the Metaverse through the work of the Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), the Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist, Slavoj Žižek (born 1949), and especially the French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, Jacques Lacan (1901–1981). It seems to me that psychoanalytical thought, especially as developed out of Freud’s work by Lacan and Žižek, offers a powerful means of understanding the underlying desires driving the development of such technologies. Lacan’s work allows us to see how the virtual world of the Metaverse manifests elements of our unconscious response to our own humanness.