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THE TECHNOLOGICAL DRIVE

Vestigia, Volume 3, Issue 2, 2022

This paper is the first of a series of reflections on the matter of the relation between psychic and technological apparatuses today. In contrast to the claim that Freudian psychoanalysis is marked by a dearth of reflection on technology, it advances the argument that a technological imagination has always been present at the heart of Freudian theory, and even defines it. Thus it reconceptualises the Freudian drive as essentially and topologically continuous with exterior technological objects qua a system of organs, employing Stiegler’s framework of a general organology, together with Tomšič’s analysis of the drives as deviational. Rereading Freud and Lacan’s reflections on the organs of the drives under this aspect, it postulates the Freudian drive as itself an extimate organisation in light of the contemporary problem of enjoying bodies (jouissance).

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