Freud and Lacan as Media Theorists or What Media Can Say About Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysis – About Media

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Abstract

[In Russian]

The question of media and medialization/mediatization are
not obvious at first sight in a psychoanalysis discourse, but cer-
tainly actual. The exception is represented by Slavoj Zizek’s works,
where he analyzes the media, new media with the help of Lacan’s
psychoanalysis, considers our current culture in the context of
general mediatization.
We have already got used to connection between language
and psychoanalysis, however there is a number of theorists which
suggest to look at psychoanalysis from a bit different perspective,
from the perspective of media (technical media) development,
from the perspective, on the one hand, that opening of psycho-
analysis has coincided with the cinema invention, on the other
hand, with the end of monopoly of the writing and the beginning
of differentiation of media.
This article will focus on the one more way of the reference
to a problematic «media/psychoanalysis», on the historization of
psychoanalysis, historization of psychoanalytic ideas in a context
of media and media technologies. All recent attempts, which will
be presented and analysed in this article, are attempts to call into
question invisibility of the connection between media and psy-
choanalysis. Articles of Thomas Elsaesser, Friedrich Kittler and
Mary Ann Doane will be considered within this theme, which is
really actual in the light of questions on specificity of the virtual
space and the role of media in a contemporary society.