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Is The Webcam a Grave?: The Voice in the Digital Age presented by Garrett Tanner, PhD
January 8 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
In recent years, there has been a mass adoption of distance technologies for therapy sessions. My primary argument is that the rapid proliferation of digital spaces urges new questions about the role of the body in therapy and the voice it emits. Through camera-centered technologies, the prominence of the visual image becomes reasserted – not just in the gaze of the therapist or analyst, but also the gaze of the analysand looking back at themselves speaking. I present a case history of my analysand Sandra to explore implications and discuss how Lacan’s three registers (symbolic, imaginary, real) and Freud and Lacan’s writings on drives may orient one in thinking through these problematics. Please note that this presentation is designed to encourage engagement from an audience at all levels of Lacanian familiarity, including those completely new to the field.