The the psychosphere in the viral age Berardi, Franco creator author. text London Verso 2021 monographic xii, 164 p. "A wide-ranging exploration of the present, and the future, of the Unconscious. The Unconscious knows no time, it has no before-and-after, it does not have a history of its own. Yet, it is not always the same. As it emerges in the life of people and societies, the Unconscious is shaped by ever-changing historical conditions: its form depends on the unique 'psychosphere' of each historical age. In the early twentieth century, Freud characterised the Unconscious as the dark side of the well-ordered framework of Progress and Reason. At the end of the past century, Deleuze and Guattari described it as a laboratory: the magmatic force that ceaselessly brings about new possibilities of imagination. Today, at a time of viral pandemics and in the midst of the catastrophic collapse of capitalism, the Unconscious has begun to emerge in yet another form. In this book, Franco 'Bifo' Berardi vividly illustrates the form in which the Unconscious will make itself manifest for decades to come, and the challenges that it will pose to our possibilities of political action, poetic imagination, and therapy."--Publisher's description. Part 1. On the Threshold : Threshold/Poetry -- Beyond the Breakdown -- Semiotics of the Virus -- The Spectrum and the Horizon -- Psycho-systemic Collapse -- Freedom and Potency -- Part 2. The Imminent Psycho-Sphere : Unconscious/Verdrängung -- Autistic Mindscape -- XXX -- Sad Is Eros -- Part 3. Becoming Nothing : Mythology of the End -- Questioning Senility -- Making Friends with Death -- Pleasure and Desire -- Exhaustion -- The American Insurrection as Preventive Psychotherapy -- Nothingness - the Alzheimer's of God. Franco 'Bifo' Berardi. Includes bibliographical references. English. Philosophy Psychology 154.2 BER-T 9781839762536