Laurence A. Rickels

SIGMUND FREUD “FETISHISM” (1927)

• Finding a dissociative pathway to deal with the loss of the penis
• What is it that drives us to technologise the body? 
• Media-technologies are only technologies 
• What creates a technology is it fetishisation 
• Freuds analogises psychoses as technical media 
• Post-war psychoanalysis allows psychosis to be habitable 

Cryptofeshism

• The advent of rocket – time travel
• Germany trying to dominate a media (air) as the brits did with the sea…
• Psychotechnical research: E.g.: What would the best psychological profile of the pilot?
• Result: The best ‘merging’ of the plane and man happens with the 
• The Efficient Soldier – claud isla – new reliance on a psyche that was balance on \
• Zulu time?
• The merger of the pilot with the machine in flight – Metz (1920s)
• The 

Woman in the Moon

• Science Faction – marks the beginning of science fiction’s transition into a ‘presupposed reality of the future’ instead of pure fantasy (A rocket was meant to be launched at the opening…) 
• Destination Moon (film)
• One of the earlier and most important films of the era was 1950’s widely publicized Destination Moon. It follows a nuclear-powered rocketship carrying four men to the moon, against a background of competition against the Soviets.
• Counting down instead of counting up 
• Dark City (1998)
• Dr. Daniel P. Schreber
• Daniel Paul Schreber
• Encapsulated psychosis

How to integrate psychosis into the post-war society – the trajectory from Fritz Lang to American Science Friction to Disneyland aesthetics to Dark City.

Test for being human:

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep: The Android Test
• Bladerunner (Descartes)
• Human life is in the predicament of undecidability with regards to the reality of existence