[Commlist] Formative Media – new book

The book on *Formative Media – Psychoanalysis and Digital Media 
Platforms* is out today.

https://www.routledge.com/Formative-Media-Psychoanalysis-and-Digital-Media-Platforms/Kruger/p/book/9781032308531 


Formative Media presents a psychoanalytic and psychosocial inquiry into 
the significance of the most widely used digital platforms – including 
Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter (X), and Instagram – and the 
relational styles that users cultivate and habituate in their interplay 
with these platforms.

Steffen Krüger assesses the formative effects of these platforms, 
considering who we are and how we are becoming who we are in relation 
to, as well as mediated through, digital platforms. The book considers 
Facebook in conversation with the Freudian theory of Eros and the 
Live/Love drive, then homes in on the primitive forms of orality, 
attachment, dependence, and symbiosis in relation to YouTube. Krüger 
then expands the discussion of orality with an inquiry into the notions 
of mastery, control, and domination that Google unfolds and activates in 
its search function, considers narcissism in the context of Instagram, 
and examines hate speech and aggression on Twitter. The book focuses on 
the most salient, most talked about aspects, features, and activities of 
commercial, corporate social media culture to inquire into the 
formational pushes and pulls of these activities in their contexts for 
our subjectivities and sense of self.

Showing in detail how digital media platforms have advanced into central 
“socialisation agencies,” Formative Media will be of great interest to 
academics and scholars of psychoanalytic, psychocultural, and 
psychosocial theory, critical digital media studies, and interactional 
theory.

 TOC



Acknowledgements

Series Preface

Introduction – the forms of formative media



Chapter 1

Outrageous growth and the Eros of Facebook



Chapter 2

The feeding tube – YouTube, oral cravings, and the question of addiction



Chapter 3

Anxious narcissism – Instagram, self-image practices, and the persistent 
question of narcissism



Chapter 4

Compromised formations – Google, obsession and the desublimation of 
knowledge



Chapter 5

The joke that isn’t funny anymore – Twitter, aggression and the perfect 
shitstorm



Chapter 6

Conclusion – ‘platforming’ the digital subject



Bibliography



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