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‘…psychoanalysis would not have been what it was (any more than so many other things) if E-mail, for example, had existed. And\u00a0in the future\u00a0<\/em>it will no longer be what Freud and so many psychoanalysts have anticipated, from the moment E-mail, for example, became possible.’
\n— Jacques Derrida,\u00a0Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression\u00a0<\/em>(1995)<\/p>\n

‘When can a screen relation substitute for the experience of being bodies together? When can it not?’
\n— Tod Essig, Foreword to Gillian Isaacs Russell, Screen Relations: The Limits of Computer-Mediated Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy\u00a0<\/em>(2015)<\/p>\n

Can you ‘do psychoanalysis’ by telephone, Skype, email? As Russell\u00a0points out in her recent\u00a0Screen Relations<\/em>, the questions – fuelled by what she describes as ‘enchantment with technology, fear of professional obsolescence, and economic anxiety’ – are now urgent for the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. Questions of environment, contact, silence, connection, reliability, presence, access, embodiment, equality and diversity, professional survival … the list could go on.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In\u00a0grappling with these issues, psychoanalysis is bringing its distinctive\u00a0sensibility to bear on dilemmas that confront a range of professions (take, for example, academic concerns about the effect on students’ attendance of posting of lectures online) and diverse situations. What difference does it make being in a room with another person, or people? Can we make use of another’s mind if their body is not present? As Russell’s work makes clear, a psychoanalysis rooted in infantile experience is necessarily attentive to self states that go beyond words – to states of being<\/em> as well as states of mind.<\/p>\n

That psychoanalysis needs to engage with other disciplines in order to explore these issues is one of the starting-points of Russell’s book. Equally clear from reading it is psychoanalysis can make a unique contribution to our understanding of the impact of new digital technologies – our ‘screen cultures’ – on the experience of being human in the 21st century.<\/p>\n

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