Fictional and Real Cyborgs: Notes on Literature, Cinema, Technoscience, and Psychoanalysis
Cyborgs among us | Rafel Duran Torrent | 2017
Claudia Suárez claudiasuarez.psy@gmail.com

Abstract

This article provides examples of "fictional cyborgs" in science fiction literature and film and highlights some psychological effects. It also recovers testimonies of “real cyborgs” from the documentary Cyborgs among us (Duran, 2017), and points out processes of identification and idealization. Add notes on: - the historical development of technoscience, - ethical issues in technological advances. The tour ends with the concepts of body, social bond and discourse according to psychoanalysis and brief considerations on its ethics.

Keywords: Cyborgs | Literature | Cinema | Technoscience | Psychoanalysis

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: Cíborgs ficticios y reales: notas sobre literatura, cine, tecnociencia y psicoanálisis


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