The Polyphonic Subjectivities of Posthumanism

Checa M.L.S. · Technomorphisms and the Posthuman Turn: A Challenge to Contemporary Psychoanalysis (2026) · DOI: 10.4324/9781003783862-15

Resumen

In this text, María Luisa Silva Checa explores the resonances between posthumanist thought (Rosi Braidotti) and contemporary psychoanalysis, with particular attention to how both frameworks help rethink processes of subjectivation in the context of rapid cultural and technological transformations. From a transdisciplinary perspective that draws on philosophical, social, and musical references, the essay reflects on how the human subject is reconfigured amid hybrid corporalities, digital environments, and expanded notions of the living. Concepts such as the technobody, the algorithmic colonization of life, and the model of polyphony are used to examine the challenges facing psychoanalytic practice today. These include the emergence of multiple, decentralized, and deterritorialized subjectivities that resist normative classification. The author advocates for a more fluid and receptive analytic listening – one that can accompany, without nostalgia or alarm, new forms of subjective experience – and invites us to experiment with theoretical and clinical frameworks more suited to this complexity.

Instituciones: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú