[Chrome sirens, herostratic machines. "Desiderata: psychology of things" (G. Anders): for reorientation of psychology].
Taking up Günther Anders' hypothesis of the "antiquated nature of the human", Lütkehaus expounds a "psychology of things" suitable as a replacement for all form of human psychology, including psychoanalysis. The basic assumption of the psychology of things is that as the human individual as a subject is totally ruled by technologies and machines-cars, computers, the media etc. -all talk of the subject and subjectivity has become completely obsolescent. In the psychology of things psychic productions are seen as frozen masks of the spiritual in which the human individual cultivates and indulges the illusion of a non-existent subjectivity. With references to the dropping of the atom bomb on Nagasaki and the annihalation machinery of the Nazis the author attempts to concretize this new paradigm.
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D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D009769:Object Attachment; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011936:Reality Testing; D012938:Social Perception; D013672:Technology; D014857:Warfare